|
|
informal
co-optation, and the functional
responsibilities of these organs are
indeterminate or overlapping.
|
|
5
|
Two or
three major national organs can be
identified; the selection procedures are either
largely indeterminate or involve a substantial
amount of informal co-optation, but the
functional responsibilities of these organs are
relatively clearly specified.
|
|
6
|
Two or
three major national organs can be
identified; the selection procedures are
characterized by prescribed selection,
but the functional responsibilities of these
organs are indeterminate or
overlapping.
|
|
7
|
Two or
three major national organs can be
identified; the selection procedures are
characterized by prescribed selection,
and the functional responsibilities of these
organs are relatively clearly
specified.
|
|
8
|
Four or
more major national organs can be
identified; the selection procedures either are
largely indeterminate or involve a substantial
amount of informal co-optation, and the
functional responsibilities of these organs are
indeterminate or overlapping.
|
|
9
|
Four or
more major national organs can be
identified; the selection procedures either are
largely indeterminate or involve a substantial
amount of informal cooptation, but the
function responsibilities of these organs are
relatively clearly specified.
|
|
10
|
Four or
more major national organs can be
identified; the selection procedures are
characterized by prescribed selection,
but the functional responsibilities of these
organs are indeterminate or
overlapping.
|
|
11
|
Four or
more major national organs can be
identified; the selection procedures are
characterized by prescribed selection,
and the functional responsibilities of these
organs are relatively clearly
specified.
|
Coding Results. Tables 9.1a and 9.1b contain the
pertinent statistics from our coding of BV801, "structural
articulation." Over 90 percent of our parties were scored
for BV801, but there was a pronounced correlation of .63
between the confidence of our coding judgments and the
variable scores. Parties whose structure was described at
length in the literature tended to be those which received
high scores on this variable. Parties whose structure
received little attention in the literature were apt to be
given low scores. While intuitively understandable, this
relationship between literature treatment and coding
judgments needs to be noted.
According to our coding of political parties in the
decade of the 1950s, the modal frequency stood at the
highest point on the scale, which indicated the presence of
four or more national organs characterized by prescribed
selection and clearly specified functional responsibilities.
But this category accounted only for about one quarter of
the parties; the rest were well spread along the continuum
of structural articulation, suggesting a good deal of
variance in this attribute of parties across nations.
TABLE 9.1a: Mid 1950s: BV8.01
Structural Articulation
TABLE 9.1b: Early 1960s: BV8.01 Structural
Articulation
|