Stasiology and Electoral Systems

It is obvious today that the democratic political regime cannot be considered reality without taking into account political parties; it is as obvious as the phenomenon of partidocracy, expressed through the quasi-total domination of parties in politics. Such judgements prompted the title of the book Stasiology and Electoral Systems. The book itself revives the term stasiology, introduced by M. Duverger in 1951, which defines the science of political parties but has not been used very much over the last decades. Its approach is explanatory and perspective alike, emphasizing the myriad of correlations surrounding the emergence, functions, types and systems of parties, on the one hand, and the electoral systems used to elect parliaments, styles of representation and executive formation on the other.

List of contents

Contents: Political Parties - Party Origin - Types of Parties - Elections and Electoral Systems - Parliaments - Origin of Parliaments - Governments - Aspects of Multi-Party Systems Today - Knowledge - Culture and the Progress of Democracy - Partidocracy - Partidism - One-Party System - Formal Democracy - Substantial Democracy.

About the author

Adrian Gorun is a Professor of Philosophy and Political Sciences and also President of the Senate at «Constantin Brancus» University of Targu Jiu (Romania). He is also the author of Social Development and Globalization; Geopolitics, Geostrategic Approaches and Globalization - Sociological Perspectives; Political Philosophy - 15 Reflection Topics.

Product details

• Authors: Adrian Gorun
• Assisted by: Camelia Dicu (Translation)
• Publisher: Peter Lang
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 31.05.2016
• EAN: 9783631634035
• ISBN: 978-3-631-63403-5
• No. of pages: 256
• Dimensions: 148 mm x 19 mm x 210 mm
• Weight: 440 g
• Subjects: Social sciences, law, business > Political science > General, dictionaries; Öffentliche Verwaltung, Politikwissenschaft, Osteuropa, Politische Strukturen und Prozesse, Soziologie und Anthropologie, Politik / Politikwissenschaft, Politologie, Verwaltung / Öffentliche Verwaltung, Osten / Osteuropa, Europa / Osteuropa, Ceausescu, Nicolae; Romanian Governments; Romanian Parliaments; Romanian Parties; formal democracy