Classifying political parties describes authors' efforts to place political parties in analytical categories or along conceptual dimensions.
Ideological Typology --	left-right classification centrist mainstream populist extremist
Functional typology --	new parties catch-all parties cartel parties mass parties minor parties parties of notables anti-system parties protest parties parliamentary opposition separatist parties racist, nationalist parties ethnic parties religious parties single issue parties transnational parties aggregation, articulation
This menu applies only to manuscripts that seek to classify parties. If your manuscript does not deal with party classifications, do not choose any of these terms. If yours does, choose the term that is most descriptive of your study. If it deals with several types of parties, choose "functional typology." updated August 17, 2011