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a group of officials or would-be officials who are linked with a sizable group of citizens into an organization; a chief object of this organization is to ensure that its officials attain power or are maintained in power
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the systematic stimulation of concerted effort by large, as in elections or demonstrations. This term is used especially in reference to such stimulation conducted on its own behalf by the government
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personal identification with a political party; not just agreement with its poslicies or candidates of the moment but an enduring identification with the party itself
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the set of all parties in a state. Political scientists distinguish among such systems primarily by the number and relative size of the parties: for example, two-party systems, multiparty systems, dominant party systems
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a political system in which only a single political party is allowed to be active
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a political party system in which various parties are allowed to function openly and with reasonable effectiveness but in which a single party nonetheless holds power all the time
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a democratic system in which two parties regularly receive 90% or more of votes cast but in which it is rare for either of them to receive more than 55% or 60% of the votes. These two parties will replace each other in office fairly frequently
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a democratic system in which there are more than two major parties
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