ON THE ATTEMPTS TO CLASSIFY PARTIES AND PARTY SYSTEMS IN UNDERDEVELOPED COUNTIES Cover Image

РАЗМАТРАЊЕ ПОКУШАЈА КЛАСИФИКОВАЊА ПАРТИЈА И ПАРТИЈСКИХ СИСТЕМА У НЕДОВОЉНО РАЗВИЈЕНИМ ЗЕМЉАМА
ON THE ATTEMPTS TO CLASSIFY PARTIES AND PARTY SYSTEMS IN UNDERDEVELOPED COUNTIES

Author(s): Zoran Atanacković
Subject(s): Law, Constitution, Jurisprudence, Constitutional Law
Published by: Правни факултет Универзитета у Нишу

Summary/Abstract: In addition to „The Discussion of the attempt to classify the parties and the party system in underdeveloped countries" the author, first of all, takes up some weaknesses which appear in the political theory in connection with typo- logizatioii and classification of the parties. In his opinion, in the basds of all contamorary typologizations of the parties given by the civil authors there is Diverdge's classification into massive (large) and personnel ones. All of that .what the civil political science added later to this, lincluding even th attempt to carry this classic classification to the ground of the underdeveloped world, represents the variations on the "same subject and doesn't contain any essencial theoretical news.In his further presentation — to confirm it — the author relatively in details deads with the most important one of the existing classifications of the parties and the party system in the Third World, and frist of all, with the clasification of the parties intomassive and personnel (that is to say: elite ones or patron (protector ones, as well as with the classification into revolutionary — centralistic and pragmatic — pluralistic. After a short analysis he comes to a conclusion that the main weakness of these classifications is in the absence of a class approach to the observed phenomena, which makes the civil theore¬tician to be superficial and unable them to get to the heart of their essence.The autor pays attention in the last part of the addition to the contam- porary Marxist attempts to classify the aprties and the party systems in the underdeveloped countries which, at least in his opinion, although theu are most often based on one class approach to these problems, didn't reach the satisfac¬tory theortical and csientific level. In the end he presents his try to typologize the parties in the underdeveloped countries selecting as the basic categories massive people movements, revolutionary — democratic parties or the partiens of the changes and conservative — reactionary parties or parties of status-quo.

  • Issue Year: XVIII/1978
  • Issue No: 18
  • Page Range: 167-176
  • Page Count: 10
  • Language: Serbian