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Party government links the two halves of political life, the half constituted by the inputs of the society brought into the ‘blackbox’ via the governmental party(ies) and the half constituted by the state outputs organised and controlled in the ‘blackbox’ by the government. To be understood, the characteristics of party government therefore have to be related to activities taking place within these two halves, indeed not just at the level of parties and of governments, but within the society and the state at large. The aim of this chapter is to provide a framework for such an analysis.
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Blondel, J. (2000). A framework for the Empirical Analysis of Government-Supporting Party Relationships. In: Blondel, J., Cotta, M. (eds) The Nature of Party Government. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/9780333977330_5
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