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social science subjects > politics and international relations > political science > political organizations and parties > freezing of party alternatives

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freezing of party alternatives  

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  • 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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