| 释义 |
multi-ˈparty, a. Polit.
[f. multi- + party n. 6.]
Comprising several parties or members of several parties; of an electoral or political system which results in the formation of three or more influential parties.
1909Englishwoman Apr. 325 The suffrage societies, nominally non-party and really multi-party in their composition. 1935R. Bassett Essent. Parl. Democracy ii. 43 Under the multi-party conditions prevalent in most continental parliamentary regimes, it is almost certain that no single party will be able to secure a working majority. 1954B. & R. North tr. Duverger's Pol. Parties ii. i. 229 The typology of the multi-party system is difficult to establish. 1956J. Klein Study of Groups 161 A democratic country with a multi-party system. 1958A. Leiserson Parties & Politics ix. 358 The multiparty system operates quite differently in a three-party situation..from the way it does when there are five or six fairly identifiable party groupings. 1964Ann. Reg. 1963 204 Dr Raúl Leoni..stated that his party would try to form a multi-party coalition. 1970B. M. Barry Sociologists, Economists & Democracy v. 125 In a multi-party system, the parties are more precise but it is more difficult to tell what one is doing by voting for one.
Hence multi-ˈpartism, multi-ˈpartyism, a political system in which the major interest groups of the electorate are reflected in three or more influential parties. Also multi-partist adj.
1946F. A. Ogg European Govt. & Politics (rev. ed.) xlv. 901 The error would lie in failure to remember..the total absence of anything approaching Western multi⁓partyism. 1954B. & R. North tr. Duverger's Pol. Parties ii. i. 229 In this sense multi-partism is fairly characteristic of Western Europe, Great Britain excepted but Ireland included. Ibid. iii. 393 Great Britain and the Dominions, under a two-party system, are profoundly dissimilar from Continental countries under a multi-partist system. 1962S. E. Finer Man on Horseback xii. 236 In Indonesia, where the sole unifying force in government is the personality of Sukarno, his recent activities provide a grotesque commentary on multi-partyism in a new and divided state. 1967J. J. Linz in Lipset & Rokkan Party Syst. & Voter Alignments 259 (heading) The transition from extreme multipartism to polarized conflict and civil war. 1971D. W. Rae Pol. Consequences Electoral Laws (rev. ed.) iii. 53 An extreme case of ‘multi-partism’, with, say, ten parties, each polling about one tenth of the total vote. |