G. Sartori’s scientific contributions

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Polarization, fragmentation and competition in Western democracies.
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January 1983

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G. Sani

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G. Sartori

Polarisation is the best single explanatory variable for stable versus unstable, functioning versus non-functioning, successful versus immobile, and easy versus difficulty democracy. The most significant form is usually the left-right variety, largely because the spatial imagery subsumes under its ordering the issues that acquire political salience. -after Authors

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... Whether this space materializes is a different matter altogether. Sani and Sartori (1983) draw a distinction between dimensions of identification and the space of competition (see also Freire 2006). The latter is the empirically identifiable space in which political parties operate. ...

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Multidimensional Party Polarization in Europe: Cross-Cutting Divides and Effective Dimensionality
Polarization, fragmentation and competition in Western democracies.
  • Citing Article
  • January 1983