Erdmann, Gero; Basedau, Matthias - German Institute of Global and Area Studies (GIGA) - 2007
Starting from controversial findings about the relationship between party systems and the prospects of democratic … approaches. We argue that a modified version of Sartori's typology of party systems provides an appropriate method for … classifying African party systems. Based on Sartori's framework, a preponderance of predominant and dominant party systems is …