Parties and party systems

Cambridge University Press

1976

383 p.

Includes bibliographical references and index

9780521212380

I. The rationale: why parties -- II. The party as part : From faction to part -- Pluralism -- Responsible and responsive government -- A rationalization -- III. The party as a whole : No-party versus one-party -- The party-state system -- One-party pluralism -- IV. The preliminary framework : Channelment, communication, expression -- The minimal definition -- An overview -- V. The party from within : Fractions, faction, and tendencies -- A scheme of analysis -- Southern politics: "factions" without parties? -- Italy and Japan: fractions within parties -- The structure of opportunities -- From party to faction -- VI. Party systems : The numerical criterion : The issue -- Rules for counting -- A two-dimensional mapping -- VII. Competitive systems : Polarized pluralism -- Testing the cases -- Moderate pluralism and segmented societies -- Two-party systems -- Predominant party systems -- VIII. Noncompetitive systems : Where competition ends -- Single party -- Hegemonic party -- IX. Fluid polities and quasi-parties : Methodological cautions -- The African labyrinth -- Ad hoc categorizing -- The boomerang effect -- X. The overall framework : System change, continuum, and discontinuities -- Mapping function and explanatory power -- From classification to measurement -- Measuring relevance -- Numbers and size: the index of fractionalization -- Combining the nominal and mathematical routes -- XI. Spatial competition : The Downsian theory revisited -- Issues, identification, images, and positions -- Multidimensional, uni-dimensional, and ideological space -- The direction of competition

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