The Study of Party Factions as Competitive Political Organizations
@article{Belloni1976TheSO, title={The Study of Party Factions as Competitive Political Organizations}, author={Frank P. Belloni and Dennis C. Beller}, journal={Political Research Quarterly}, year={1976}, volume={29}, pages={531 - 549} }
T HE TERM "faction" is one which occurs with considerable frequency in the literature of politics, and references to specific factions and to "factionalism" in a wide variety of contexts are common. Despite commonplace allusion to faction, however, this realm of politics has been only poorly developed as a category of inquiry and analysis in political science. This is especially true in the context of the enormous body of literature devoted to phenomena of organization and competition for power…
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