Concept information
Preferred term
freezing of party alternatives
Definition
- The freezing of party alternatives is a concept that asserts that political party structures in democratic systems tend to block or freeze the emergence of additional competitive parties, especially in two-party systems. The idea was first developed by Seymour Martin Lipset and Stein Rokkan in 1967. [Source: The Encyclopedia of Political Science; Freezing of Party Alternatives]
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URI
https://concepts.sagepub.com/social-science/concept/freezing_of_party_alternatives
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