POL101Y1 Lecture Notes - Chhibber, Rashtriya Janata Dal, Babri Masjid
18 Apr 2013
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Affect outcomes such as economic growth, public goods provision and poverty alleviation. The system of competition that comprises a group of parties within the particular political system of a country. Characteristics of party system: fragmentation measured by the effective number of parties. Greater fragmentation doesn"t necessarily mean greater competition: ideological distribution of parties. Not a one-party system just that one-party is more likely to win but other parties exist. Cleavages in society are reflected in the party system. Eg. class cleavage (of capital and labour) reflected as a left / right divide within the party system. Certain types of rules (proportional representation or first past the post - fptp) affect the party system. All of india follows a simple plurality system. However india still has v. different party systems at the state levels. When you have a fptp system - the nature of the party system will tend towards a two-party system.
