This belief, however, may be questioned. Some years ago Axel Hadenius published a book
on democracy in Third World countries, establishing, for a sample of 132 countries, a scale …

In trying to review this learned collection of twelve separately important though related
research papers, the easiest and probably most useful task is to summarize the contents …

The question this chapter addresses is the relevance and utility of the Lipset/Rokkan party-
cleavage thesis for the analysis of party politics in the Third World. Given the vast potential …

This book is the result of an international conference called “Party Systems and Voter
Alignments: Thirty Years After” which was held in Bergen, Norway, on 24–27 April 1997. The …

The belief that modern democracy is party democracy is widespread. However, the belief
may be questioned. A number of small independent island states that subscribe to a high …

This article classifies the democratic party systems of the world by using the relative-size
triangle, a bounded diagram that graphically represents information about seat distributions …

An electoral system is the most fundamental element of representative democracy,
translating citizen's votes into representatives' seats. It is also the most potent practical …

Scholarly literature on political parties and party systems often refers to policy distances
between parties. This is most obvious in the vast literature on the spatial theory of voting, but …

The newest volume in the acclaimed Journal of Democracy series addresses electoral
systems and democracy. As the number of democracies has increased around the world, a …

In conceiving his, pathbreaking contributionis to classical physics Sir Isaac Newton is said to
have been much influenced by his dedication to Our Lord, the Creator, and by pious …