Rae and Taylor's Measure of Intensity

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

E-ISSN: 1469-2112|1|4|513-518

ISSN: 0007-1234

Source: British Journal of Political Science, Vol.1, Iss.4, 1971-10, pp. : 513-518

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Abstract

It has long been fashionable for political scientists to account for the stability of democratic regimes by the sorts of cleavages that occur in the society. One such theory runs that the more cleavages reinforce one another the more unstable the regime will be, whilst the more cleavages overlap the more stable it will be. Unfortunately, up till now