Parties and party systems : a framework for analysis

Authors:Giovanni Sartori, European Consortium for Political Research

Summary:In this broad-ranging volume Sartori outlines a comprehensive and authoritative approach to the classification of party systems. He also offers an extensive review of the concept and rationale of the political party, and develops a sharp critique of various spatial models of party competition

Print Book, English, 2005

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Publisher: ECPR, Colchester, 2005

Series:

ECPR classics

Physical Description:xxiv, 342 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm

ISBN:

9780954796617, 0954796616

OCLC Number / Unique Identifier:57526901

Subjects:

89.61 political parties

Internationaler Vergleich

Contents:

Tables of figures

Abb

New preface by the author

Introduction by Peter Mair

Preface

Part one: The rationale : why parties?

1. The party as part. 2. The party as whole. 3. The preliminary framework. 4. The party from within

Part two: party systems: 5. The numerical criterion. 6. Competitive systems. 7. Non-competitive systems. 8. Fluid polities and quasi-parties. 9. The overall framework. 10. Spatial competition

Index

Notes:

Originally published: Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 1976

Includes index

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