Parties and party systems : a framework for analysis
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Parties and party systems : a framework for analysis
（ECPR classics / series editors, Alan Ware and Vincent Hoffmann-Martinot）
ECPR Press, 2005
- : pbk
Available at 5 libraries
Note
Originally published: Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 1976
Includes index
Description and Table of Contents
Description
In this rich and broad-ranging volume, Giovanni Sartori outlines what is now recognised to be the most 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. This is political science at its best - combining the intelligent use of theory with sophisticated analytic arguments, and grounding all of this on a substantial cross-national empirical base. Parties and Party Systems is one of the classics of postwar political science, and is now established as the foremost work in its field.
Table of Contents
contents
Tables and Figures vii
Abbreviations ix
New preface by the author xi
Introduction by Peter Mair xiii
Preface xxi
PART ONE: THE RATIONALE: WHY PARTIES? 1
Chapter one: The party as part 3
1. From faction to party 3
2. Pluralism 12
3. Responsible and responsive government 16
4. A rationalisation 21
Chapter two: The party as whole 35
1. No-party versus one-party 35
2. The party-state system 38
3. One-party pluralism 42
Chapter three: The preliminary framework 50
1. Channelment, communication, expression 50
2. The minimal definition 52
3. An overview 57
Chapter four: The party from within 63
1. Fractions, factions, and tendencies 63
2. A scheme of analysis 66
3. Southern politics: `Factions' without parties? 72
4. Italy and Japan: Fractions within parties 78
5. The structure of opportunities 82
6. From party to faction 92
PART TWO: PARTY SYSTEMS
Chapter five: The numerical criterion 105
1. The issue 105
2. Rules for counting 107
3. A two-dimensional mapping 110
Chapter six: Competitive systems 116
1. Polarised pluralism 116
2. Testing the cases 128
3. Moderate pluralism and segmented societies 154
4. Twoparty systems 164
5. Predominant-party systems 171
Chapter seven: Non-competitive systems 193
1. Where competition ends 193
2. Single party 197
3. Hegemonic party 204
Chapter eight: Fluid polities and quasi-parties 217
1. Methodological cautions 217
2. The African labyrinth 221
3. Ad hoc categorising 226
4. The boomerang effect 236
Chapter nine: The overall framework 243
1. System change, continuum, and discontinuities 243
2. Mapping function and explanatory power 251
3. From classification to measurement 261
4. Measuring relevance 267
5. Numbers and size: The index of fractionalisation 271
6. Combining the nominal and mathematical routes 281
Chapter ten: Spatial competition 289
1. The Downsian theory revisited 289
2. Issues, identification, images, and positions 292
3. Multidimensional, unidimensional, and ideological space 297
4. The direction of competition 305
Index 319
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