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In political science, the effective number of parties is a diversity index introduced by Laakso and Rein Taagepera (1979), [1] which provides for an adjusted number of political parties in a country's party system, weighted by their relative size.
All opposition parties against the Junta were banned. Former ruling party National League for Democracy, which was overthrown by the military coup in 2021 formed National Unity Government with small minor parties, allied with Anti-government armed groups and revolted against the Junta caused the civil war.
These are lists of political parties. ... Pages in category "Lists of political parties by country" The following 200 pages are in this category, out of approximately ...
The first publication of the use of least squares in measuring the dis-proportionality of election outcomes was by Michael Gallagher in 1991 [7] in which he writes: "These [election] indices were originally outlined in Markku Laakso and Rein Taagepera, ‘ “Effective” number of parties: a measure with application to west Europe’, Comparative Political Studies 12:1 (1979), pp. 3–27 ...
Lists of political parties by country (12 C, 206 P) + Leaders of political parties by country (65 C) People by nationality and political party (6 C) A.
In these, the effective number of parties is greater than two but usually fewer than five; in a two-party system, the effective number of parties is two (according to one analysis, the actual average number of parties varies between 1.7 and 2.1). [30]
This page serves as a directory to lists of political parties worldwide, organized by their respective regions. Each linked page contains a table listing sub-pages for countries or jurisdictions within the specified region.
List of currently active political parties with 1,000,000 – 5,000,000 members Rank Name Abbreviation Party symbol Country Active since Claimed number of members (year) Approximate percentage of population (year) [b] 19 Democratic Party of Korea: DPK South Korea: 26 March 2014 (10 years ago) () 4,053,466 (2021) 7.84% (2021) 20