Nwokora, Zim; Pelizzo, Riccardo - 2017
The term "party system", explained Giovanni Sartori, refers to the pattern of interactions among major parties. That … pattern can be represented as a type and treated as a proper unit of analysis. When "party system" is defined in this way, it … becomes clear that the scholarship lacks a direct measure of "party system change". The Sartori approach to party system …