¿Están en decadencia los partidos? ¿Pueden ser sustituidos por otras organizaciones? Este libro proporciona razones para responder que, con independencia de lo deficiente que sea su actuación, las democracias aún no pueden actuar sin ellos. En su análisis fundamental y ya clásico de los partidos y los sistemas de partidos, Giovanni Sartori, expone primero cómo y por qué surgen los partidos, sus objetivos y sus funciones. En la segunda parte, en buena parte tipológica, examina los sistemas de partidos y las propiedades que resultan de las interacciones de sus unidades.
Giovanni Sartori is an Italian political scientist specialized in the study of democracy and comparative politics.
Born in Florence in 1924. Sartori began his academic career as a lecturer in the History of Modern Philosophy. He founded the first Political Science academic post in Italy, and was Dean of the newly formed University of Florence's Department of Political Science. Sartori served as Albert Schweitzer Professor in the Humanities at Columbia University from 1979 to 1994 and was later appointed Professor Emeritus.
He is a recipient of a Prince of Asturias Award (Social Sciences area, 2005). In 2009, he was the recipient of the Karl Deutsch Award of the International Political Science Association (IPSA), which honours a prominent scholar engaged in the cross-disciplinary research.
Sartori is a regular contributor, as an op-ed writer, of the leading Italian newspaper "Corriere della Sera". His article "Concept Misformation in Comparative Politics" is prominent in the field, leading Gary Goertz to write, "There are few articles in political science that deserve the predicate "classic," but Sartori's ... merits the label."