The Dominant Party System: A Neglected Model of Democratic Stability
The Dominant Party System: A Neglected Model of Democratic Stability
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执政党制度：一个被忽视的民主稳定模式
作者：
Alan Arian;S. Barnes
长期以来，政党一直是政治学领域的核心。作为正式政府结构与社会世界之间最常见的联系，政党自然是政治制度、政治行为、政治心理学和政治理论学生关注的焦点。关于派对的文献的多样性反映了它们的多面性和可以提出的问题范围。虽然分类学是研究政党的最不有效的方法之一，但文献中存在的许多分析反映了我们对一党制、两党制和多党制之间差异的关注。这种关切的基础是认识到当事方的数目具有重要意义。党是联系政治精英和群众的主要纽带，也是大多数政治制度中重要的治理工具，但这些职能发挥的方式各不相同。一个制度中政党的数量及其相互联系的方式与截然不同的政治风格有关。主导性政党制度有时被认为具有独立的身份，尽管它通常被视为其他制度之一的特殊突变，这些制度是由特定历史传统的特殊特征产生的。我们的论点是，占主导地位的政党制度是独一无二的。它不应该是假的
POLITICAL PARTIES have long been central to the field of political science. As the most common linkage between the formal governmental structure and the social world, parties are a natural focus for students of political institutions, political behavior, political psychology, and political theory. The variety of the literature on parties reflects their multifaceted nature and the range of questions that can be asked about them. Although the taxonomic is one of the least rewarding approaches to the study of parties, much of the analysis existing in the literature reflects our concern with the differences between one, two, and multi-party systems. Underlying this concern is the realization that the number of parties has significance. The party is a major link between political elites and the mass and an important instrument of governing in most political systems, but the ways in which these functions are performed vary widely. The number of parties in a system and the ways in which they relate to one another are associated with radically different styles of politics. The dominant party system is sometimes recognized as having a separate identity, though more often than not it is seen as a particular mutant of one of the other systems that results from idiosyncratic features of a specific historical tradition. It is our contention that the dominant party system is sui generis. It should not be con-