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From Type to Institutionalization——A Shift of Perspective in Western Democratic Political Studies of Party System
YE Qi-lin
Teaching and Research
2011, (12):
81-87.
As an implementation mechanism,the party system has been a very important research topic of western democratic politics.Inspected from a diachronic perspective,a shift of research perspectives from the type of party system to institutionalization of the party system is becoming obvious.To be more specific,ever since the party system was viewed as an implementation mechanism,heated debates over the advantages and disadvantages of each type of party system with regard to democratic politics have been on.However,experience suggests that both the two-party system and multi-party system have produced stable governments that maintained proper operation of democratic politics.Focusing on the type of party system alone is not of substantial significance for democratic politics.Therefore,beginning from the second half of the twentieth century many scholars started to turn their attention to the perspective of institutionalization and examined the capacity of each type of party system in its operational function to support democratic politics.Thus,a shift of research perspectives is realized.
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