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Joseph La Palombara and Myron Weiner, in Political Parties and Political Development (1966), grouped explanations of the origin of parties into institutional theories,…

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Who among the following has associated the origins of political parties with three theories – institutional theories, historical crisis theories and development theories ?

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Joseph La Palombara and Myron Weiner, in Political Parties and Political Development (1966), grouped explanations of the origin of parties into institutional theories, historical-situational (crisis) theories and developmental theories. Institutional theories link parties to the growth of parliaments, crisis theories to moments such as legitimacy or integration crises, and developmental theories to modernisation. Blondel and Eckstein wrote on parties and political systems but did not offer this threefold scheme.

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