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party2 CONSTRUCTSPolitical partyDUVERGER · ELECTORAL BLOCForaging partyNISHIDA · FISSION-FUSION

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Political science

An organized group contesting elections for office

A political party is an organized group that seeks to win and exercise governmental power, chiefly by nominating candidates and contesting elections under a shared label. Duverger's 1954 Political Parties analysed how such groups are built and how electoral rules shape whether a country settles into two large parties or many, a claim later examined in Riker's 1982 review of what became known as Duverger's law. Here the referent is a durable political organization defined by its members, its label, and its pursuit of office, not a person bound by a contract, a festive gathering, or a foraging band of animals.[1][2]

Unit
One organized political grouping that contests elections under a common label
Recovery means
Not applicable
Measured by
Described by vote and seat share, membership rolls, and a country's number of effective parties

Primatology and behavioural ecology

A temporary travelling subgroup of a community

In primatology and behavioural ecology a party is a temporary travelling or foraging subgroup that splits off from a larger community and later rejoins it. Nishida's 1968 study of the Mahali chimpanzees described how a stable community divides into shifting parties, and Aureli and colleagues' 2008 Fission-Fusion Dynamics set out the general framework in which party size and membership vary from hour to hour. This is the scholarly form of the everyday group meaning, as in a search party or a hunting party, and its referent is a fluid animal subgroup, not an electoral organization, a contracting person, or a festive gathering.[3][4]

Unit
One temporary subgroup of a fission-fusion community, at a moment in time
Recovery means
Parties dissolve and re-form as members split off and rejoin, the fusion side of fission-fusion
Measured by
Recorded as party size and composition through direct observation and follows in the field

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References

  1. Duverger, M. (1954). Political parties: Their organization and activity in the modern state (B. North & R. North, Trans.). Methuen.
  2. Riker, W. H. (1982). The two-party system and Duverger's law: An essay on the history of political science. American Political Science Review, 76(4), 753–766. https://doi.org/10.2307/1962968
  3. Nishida, T. (1968). The social group of wild chimpanzees in the Mahali Mountains. Primates, 9(3), 167–224. https://doi.org/10.1007/BF01730971
  4. Aureli, F., Schaffner, C. M., Boesch, C., Bearder, S. K., Call, J., Chapman, C. A., Connor, R., Di Fiore, A., Dunbar, R. I. M., Henzi, S. P., Holekamp, K., Korstjens, A. H., Layton, R., Lee, P., Lehmann, J., Manson, J. H., Ramos-Fernández, G., Strier, K. B., & van Schaik, C. P. (2008). Fission-fusion dynamics: New research frameworks. Current Anthropology, 49(4), 627–654. https://doi.org/10.1086/586708

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