title: The party system in Russia: multipartidism or bipartidism?
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metadata.value: Isaev, Boris A.
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metadata.name: dc.date.accessioned
metadata.value: 2017-10-24T09:39:18Z
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metadata.name: dc.date.available
metadata.value: 2017-10-24T09:39:18Z
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metadata.name: dc.date.issued
metadata.value: 2017-09
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metadata.name: dc.identifier.citation
metadata.value: Isaev B. A. The party system in Russia: multipartidism or bipartidism? Vestnik SPbSU. Political Science. International Relations, 2017, vol. 10, issue 3, pp. 210–225.
metadata.lang: en_GB
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metadata.value: 10.21638/11701/spbu06.2017.302
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metadata.name: dc.identifier.uri
metadata.value: http://hdl.handle.net/11701/8590
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metadata.name: dc.description.abstract
metadata.value: Relying on the work of political science classics and modern students of political parties, the article
  attempts to answer the question as to whether it is possible and necessary to transform the Russian
  multiparty system into two-party system? Building upon the results of the studies of A. deTocqueville,
  J. Brice, A. Lowell, S. Lipset and S. Rokkan, G. Sartori, L. Jepstejn, G. James, H. Daalder, M. Duverger,
  A. Lejphard and personal experience regarding the functioning of parties and party system, the author
  has formulated the basic advantages and disadvantages of multipartidism and bipartidism. The
  main advantages of bipartidism are: sustainable and effective Government, the ability to mitigate the ideological conflicts, fulfill election promises for voters.The main advantages of multipartidism are:
  the possibility of each social group to find an ideologically similar party, providing better partisan
  balance to the whole political system owing to the presence of not only centrist parties, but also marginal
  flanks. This serves to reflect the diversity of political parties of the historical direction of national
  character, and the ethnic and religious diversity of society. And classics and modern students of party
  politics conclude that parties and party systems derive from the existence of splits and problems in
  society and possible means toward their solution. Two-party systems formed when there is one main
  cleavage, and multi-party systems when several issues divide society into parties. During the development
  of the society, there are new problems and divisions that form new parties, but the party system
  has continued to maintain its quantitative identity. Thus, the formation of party systems occurs under
  the influence of objective factors over a long time: decades and even centuries. The subjective efforts
  of several people, even in authority, cannot facilitate the reformation of Russian (or any other for of)
  multipartidism into bipartidism. At the same time, Russian multipartidism by transforming from the
  utmost pluralism to moderate (G. Sartori) gradually acquires those traits that are considered to be
  benefits of bipartizm. Refs 20.
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.language.iso
metadata.value: ru
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.publisher
metadata.value: St Petersburg State University
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.relation.ispartofseries
metadata.value: Vestnik of St Petersburg University. Political Science. International Relations;Volume 10; Issue 3
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metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: multipartidism
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: bipartidism
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: party system
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: or partium
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: the advantages and disadvantages of multi- and two parties systems
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: formation of party systems
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: factors of formation of parties and party systems
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: polarization of partia
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: bipartidism and bipolarism
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.title
metadata.value: The party system in Russia: multipartidism or bipartidism?
metadata.lang: en_GB
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metadata.value: Article
metadata.lang: en_GB
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