Czy prawa Duvergera nadal obowiązują?

• Authors: Bartłomiej Michalak

Title variants

EN

Are the Duverger’s Laws still valid?

• Languages of publication: PL

Abstracts

PL

W artykule poddano analizie i weryfikacji empirycznej klasyczną teorię francuskiego politologa Maurice’a Duvergera tłumaczącą związki pomiędzy systemem wyborczym a systemem partyjnym. Propozycja ta, wielokrotnie omawiana, reinterpretowana, weryfikowana, krytykowana i jednocześnie potwierdzana, weszła do kanonu wiedzy i wyznaczyła kierunki badań empirycznych na temat relacji pomiędzy systemami wyborczymi a partyjnymi na wiele dekad. Autor ogłosił ją dumnie „prawdziwym prawem socjologicznym”. Celem tego artykułu jest ewaluacja twierdzeń Duvergera na płaszczyźnie metodologicznej i teoretycznej. Skonfrontowano również sformułowane przewidywania teorii z wynikami badań empirycznych. W konsekwencji umożliwi to odpowiedź na zasadnicze pytanie badawcze sformułowane w tytule artykułu.

The present paper analyses and empirically verifies a classical theory of a French political scientist, Maurice Duverger, which explains the relations between electoral and party systems. The Duverger’s theory being often discussed, interpreted, verified, criticised and at the same time corroborated, entered the canon of knowledge and for many decades set the directions of empirical studies on the relations between electoral and party systems. Duverger proudly named his theory a “true sociological law”. The aim of the paper is to evaluate Duverger’s assertions on the methodological and theoretical basis. To boot, it confronts predictions of the theory with the results of empirical research. Consequently, it will be possible to answer the eponymous, fundamental research question: Are the Duverger’s laws still valid?

Keywords

PL

system wyborczy; system partyjny; prawdziwe prawo socjologiczne; prawa nauki; Maurice Duverger; wybory do Senatu RP w 2011 roku

EN

electoral system; party system; true sociological law; scientific laws; Maurice Duverger; Polish Senate elections 2011

• Publisher: Institute of Philosophy and Sociology, Polish Academy of Sciences
• Journal: Studia Socjologiczne
• Year: 2015
• Issue: 3(218)
• Pages: 41-64

Contributors

author

Bartłomiej Michalak

• Wydział Politologii i Studiów Międzynarodowych Uniwersytetu Mikołaja Kopernika w Toruniu, ul. Stefana Batorego 39L, 87-100 Toruń

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