Political parties allow an organized means for citizens to engage in politics. Clockwise: headquarters of the Farmer-Labor Party in Minnesota (1925); the Women’s Suffrage Political Parties pamphlet for the Republican Party (1888); the Democratic Party in Hong Kong, in 2019 (GNU Free Documentation. Photo by Hpos); ballot symbols for 2013 India elections (Creative Commons photo by Government of India).

The Multiparty System

The Multiparty System: Resources

Resources

Essential Principles and History

The Avalon Project: Documents in Law, History, and Diplomacy. New Haven, CT: Yale Law School, 2008 (a general resource).

Blondel, Jean. "Types of Party Systems," in The West European Party System, edited by Peter Mair. Oxford University Press: Oxford, 1990).

Bouie, Jamelle
The Constitution Was Made For Us, Not the Other Way Around,” The New York Times, October 29, 2021

Brennan Center for Justice (home page)
“Voting Laws Round-up: October 2022,” (link).

"Political Parties," in Principles of Democracy. Bureau of International Information Programs. Washington, DC: U.S. Department of State, 2005.

Farrell, David M. Comparing Electoral Systems (Macmillan: London, 1998).

Freedom House Survey of Freedom in the World.

International Party Organizations

  • Centrist Democrat International (link)
  • International Democrat Union (link)
  • Liberal International (link)
  • Socialist International (link)
  • Transnational Radical Party (link).
  • (See also “Political Resources on Net” for links to political parties, et al.).

Levitsky, Steven and Daniel Ziblatt
How Democracies Die (Penguin Books/Crown: New York, 2019).

Madison, James

US Congress
January 6 Select Committee Report (December 19 and 21, 2022)

Israel

Economist magazine: Topics Index: Israel.

The New York Times: World Topics: Israel. See, e.g.:

Basic Law: Israel-the Nation State of the Jewish People, 2018.

Declaration of Independence, 1948.

Freedom in the World 2024 Survey of Freedom Israel Report.

Human Rights Watch: 2024 Israel and Palestine Country Report.

Other Resources

American Federation of Teachers
    Resolution Calling for a Bilateral Cease Fire, 2024 AFT Convention.

B’Tselem: Israel Information Center for Human Rights in the Occupied Territories (link).

Dissent Magazine
Can Israel Be a Democracy for All?, by Dov Waxman, March 28, 2023.

Foreign Affairs
Can the Two-State Solution Be Saved,” May 31, 2023.

Hand-in-Hand, “Twenty-Five Years of Shared Jewish-Arab Education.”

Israel Democracy Institute (Home Page).
Appointment of Judges to High Courts in Democratic Countries, 2023.

Israeli Law Professors’ Forum for Democracy
Israel’s ‘Unreasonableness Amendment’ and Its Implications,” July 28, 2023.

Jewish Virtual Library: (Home Page). See also section "The Arab Boycott."

Standing Together (home page).

U.S. Department of State Human Rights Country Reports (go to current year report and scroll to Near East, Middle East and North Africa/Israel).

Malaysia

Economist magazine: Topics Index: Malaysia.

Foreign Policy
    “Ethnic Tensions Simmer Under Malaysia’s Elections,” August 14, 2023.

The New York Times: World Topics: Malaysia. See, e.g.:

Freedom in the World 2024 Malaysia Country Report.

Human Rights Watch 2024 Malaysia Country Report.

Other Resources

Anwar, Ibrahim, "Universal Values and Muslim Democracy." Journal of Democracy 17, no. 3 (July 2006).

BERSIH (Joint Action Committee for Electoral Reform): home page.

US Dept. of State Human Rights Country Reports (go to current year Country Report and scroll to Asia for drop down menu for Malaysia).

Syria

Economist magazine: Topics Index: Syria. See, e.g.:
     “The Country Formerly Known as Syria,” February 13, 2013.

The New York Times: World Topics: Syria and Crisis in Syria. See, e.g.:

Freedom in the World 2024 Syria Country Report.

Human Rights Watch 2024 Syria Country Report.

Other Resources

Syrian Observatory for Human Rights (Home Page).

United Nations

U.S. Department of State Human Rights Country Reports (see current year Country Report and scroll to Near East and North Africa/Syria).

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