Political Parties
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 7076565 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Dave Riley (0000-0002-5140-8546, corresponding author), Dylan Riley (0000-0001-5699-5607) |
| Year | 2017 |
| Pages | 1-5 |
| Publication date | 2017-09-14 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | OTHER |
| Venue | The Blackwell Encyclopedia of Sociology (JOURNAL) |
| Publisher | Wiley (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1002/9781405165518.wbeosp040 |
| OpenAlex | W4210578539 |
| ISBN | 9781405165518 |
| Language | EN |
| References cited | 7 |
Political parties are organized currents of opinion that aim to realize a program by controlling a political association. Parties can emerge only where a politics defined as a struggle over the leadership or the influence of the leadership of a human group exists. To the extent that leadership is divided between estates, clans, or families according to tradition and is not the object of struggle, neither politics nor parties can exist. Modern party organizations are connected with the rise of the modern state because modern parties aim at seizing state power (through electoral means or violence). There are three broad schools of thought about parties: Marxism, pluralism, and elitism
Political science · Politics · Historical and Contemporary Political Dynamics · Law
| Citation velocity | historical |
|---|---|
| Highly cited | No |