| Titre | Participation électorale et concurrence entre les partis. Le cas de l'Inde (1952-1967) | |
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| Auteur | Peter McDonough | |
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Revue | Revue Française de Sociologie |
| Numéro | 1970, 11-4 | |
| Page | 488-515 | |
| Résumé anglais |
Peter McDonough : The anatomy of party competition and electoral participation in India, 1952-1967.
A model of the macro-party systems was proposed to solve the dual question of dominance/competition and bi/multipartism inherent in the classification of all party systems. Two simple parameters were found which could explain these two dimensions. This model was generated by operating on the basic data for the two leading candidates. The two parameters are 1) the proportions of the total vote for the first- and second-place candidates and 2) the cumulatives proportions of winning and second-place candidates. The four levels of competitive party system implicit in the interaction of these variables were derived: monopoly or dominance, oligarchy or dominance-by- default, polygarchy or competitive multipartism, and competitive bipartism. In the Indian case the rate of turnout tends to vary directly though loosely with increasing party competition. It proved possible to interpret the « left- right continuum » more readly in organizational than in ideological terms. The extremist parties tend to husband their resources to fit the distribution of electoral preferences. Finally, the system was analyzed in transition as well as at discrete intervals. These rankings corroborate the middle position of Congress and the relatively stronger consistency of the extremist parties and voters. A stochastic model testing the continuity of the inter-party competitive system against the results of the 1967 election proved that the system has undergone significant realignment. Source : Éditeur (via Persée) |
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| Article en ligne | http://www.persee.fr/web/revues/home/prescript/article/rfsoc_0035-2969_1970_num_11_4_1710 |
