It is obvious today that the democratic political regime cannot be considered reality without
taking into account political parties it is as obvious as the phenomenon of partidocracy
expressed through the quasi-total domination of parties in politics. Such judgements prompted
the title of the book Stasiology and Electoral Systems. The book itself revives the term
stasiology introduced by M. Duverger in 1951 which defines the science of political parties
but has not been used very much over the last decades. Its approach is explanatory and
perspective alike emphasizing the myriad of correlations surrounding the emergence functions
types and systems of parties on the one hand and the electoral systems used to elect
parliaments styles of representation and executive formation on the other.
