Under certain conditions specified in the law, libraries and archives are authorized to furnish
a photocopy or other reproduction. One of these specified conditions is that the photocopy or …

Steven B. Wolinetz range of countries: the United States and Britain with two-party systems,
and countries such as France or Germany, with multiparty competition. Distinctions between …

A few years ago (1988) Lijphart and other authors1 examined similarities and differences
between Southern European democracies (Portugal, Spain, Italy, and Greece), also in …

Parties are intermediaries, establishing linkages between societies and the institutions of
democratic government. To perform this function, they need to be anchored in both arenas …

There is one issue which tends to dominate the debate about legislative electoral systems. It
centres on the relative merits of “fairness” versus an electoral outcome which produces a …

Both of these works are concerned with Latin America, although their analyses of the
relationships among party systems, presidentialism and democratic stability deserve …

Two party? Multparty? Students of political parties have been classifying party systems for
almost as long as they have been studying parties. The number and kind of parties …