tripartismn.
/trʌɪˈpɑːtɪz(ə)m/ 1. Division into three political parties or other groups. Also transferred.
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society > authority > rule or government > politics > party politics > [noun] > system of > consisting of or representing two or more parties
multi-partyism1919
bipartisanship1950
multi-partism1954
tripartism1954
1954 B. North & R. North tr. M. Duverger Polit. Parties ii. i. 222 A tripartism analogous to that in England at the same period where the Socialist party was taking up a position alongside the two ‘bourgeois’ parties.
1964 Listener 1 Oct. 505/1 If different types of secondary school really were ‘separate but equal’, the attacks upon tripartism would lose much force.
2. A system under which representatives of three groups engage in consultation, negotiation, or joint action; spec. a system of economic planning by representatives of government, employers, and trade unions.
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society > society and the community > social relations > association for a common purpose > [noun] > system
tripartism1961
society > trade and finance > management of money > management of national resources > [noun] > political economy > planning scheme or system
central planning1922
five-year plan1929
tripartism1961
market testing1991
1961 Guardian 14 June 18/6 The Soviet insistence on tripartism and triunity.
1974 Government & Opposition IX. 405 The British flirtation with planning throughout the 1960s could be characterized as toothless tripartism.
1980 Times 17 May 14/3 Meetings with Ministers are not the ‘tripartism’ that the TUC wants.
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