Relations with society pertains to how political parties connect with the political and social system.
institutionalization	party birth/origin party decline/death party change/adaptation splits/mergers
governmental status	electoral strength legislative strength executive share
social bases	socioeconomic status ethnicity/language/race religion region urban/rural education gender clientelism social cleavages
Not all manuscripts will deal with parties' relations to society. Choose one of these terms only if yours does. If you wish to propose additional categories to this list, please write to <k-janda@northwestern.edu>. Updated August 6, 2006