英文文献：Bridging the Divide: Measuring Party System Change and Classifying Party Systems-弥合分歧:计量党制变迁与党制分类
英文文献作者：Riccardo Pelizzo,Zim Nwokora
英文文献摘要：
Party systems research has proceeded along two parallel lines of inquiry, one predominantly “qualitative” and the other “quantitative.” This article attempts to bridge this divide in two ways. First, by showing that qualitative information can be valuable in the construction of quantitative measures. Second, by showing that the results from applying theoretically- sensitive measurement tools can be useful for qualitative classification. These analyses are performed using an original dataset of party system changes in Sub-Saharan Africa.

政党制度研究沿着两条平行的调查路线进行，一条主要是“定性”，另一条主要是“定量”。本文试图通过两种方式弥合这种分歧。首先，通过表明定性信息在构建定量度量中是有价值的。第二，通过表明应用理论灵敏的测量工具的结果可以用于定性分类。这些分析是使用撒哈拉以南非洲地区政党制度变化的原始数据集进行的。