| John Gray Geer - 1998 - 432 pages
...discussion of the nature of political parties, Leon Epstein comes to a similar basic definition of party as "any group, however loosely organized, seeking to...elect governmental office-holders under a given label" (1980, 9). Or, as EE Schattschneider put it more bluntly, "A political party is first of all an organized... | |
| Timothy J. Colton - 2000 - 340 pages
...parties of all sizes, viewpoints, and temperaments. I define a political party functionally — as "any group, however loosely organized, seeking to...governmental office-holders under a given label," to quote Leon D. Epstein.15 Russian rules of the political road have not set duly certified and titled... | |
| Robert G. Moser - 2001 - 200 pages
...than political parties.)7 Thus, I adopt Leon Epstein's minimalist definition of a political party as "any group, however loosely organized, seeking to...rather than an organization is the crucial defining element.")8 Some of the organizations that have contested elections in Russia call themselves political... | |
| Giovanni Sartori - 2005 - 368 pages
...Political Parties in Western Democracies, op. cit., p. 9. 16 Ibid., p. 11. See, in more detail, on p. 9: "...any group, however loosely organized, seeking...governmental officeholders under a given label... rather than an organization is the crucial defining element." 17 This is testified by the overview... | |
| Carl Devos - 2006 - 600 pages
...Van zodra die groep een naam heeft en dus een bepaald belang nastreeft, is er sprake van een partij. "Any group, however loosely organized, seeking to...elect governmental office-holders under a given label [can be called a party] . Having a label rather than an organization is the crucial defining element."... | |
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