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6. Who says that 'it has already been shown that there exists no centre opinion...tendency... doctrine separate in any kind from the doctrines of the right or left- but only a dilution of their doctrines'?

  • Duverger
  • Sartori

7. Who say that Duverger is wrong about electoral formula's effect on the number of parties and that the formula exists to serve the demand for parties due to social cleavages?

  • Ordeshook and Coz
  • Lipset and Rokkan

8. What is Sartori's view on centre parties?

  • the very existence of a centre party discourages centrality
  • they are a waste of time

9. Who says 'a party is not a community but a collection of communities'?

  • Duverger
  • Lijphart

10. To whom does the frozen cleavages idea belong?

  • Lipset and Rokkan
  • Lijphart and Rose

11. Who compares parties to McDonalds?

  • Carty
  • Bolleyer

12. Who says that the highest degree of opposition concentration exists in a two-party system?

  • Dahl
  • Duverger

13. Who says that two opposition parties may be further away from each other than the government?

  • Sartori
  • Dahl

14. Who introduced median voter theorem?

  • Downs
  • Dahl

15. Who argues that moderate multipartism is only favourable on the condition that all parties are minority parties?

  • Lijphart
  • Dahl

16. Which of the following is not a component of an electoral system?

  • district magnitude
  • electoral rules
  • Number of parties
  • electoral formula

17. Why does Duverger believe that FPTP leads to two party systems and PR to multiparty systems?

  • problems of math and wasted vote syndrome
  • more choice equals more parties emerging

18. What is clientilism?

  • buying votes
  • sponsoring candidates

19. Which of the following is not a reason for declining party membership?

  • loosening of the bond with trade unions
  • greater appeal of social movements
  • rise of extremist parties
  • decay of local electioneering
  • weakening of social cleavages
  • increase in corruption