AUTHOR:
Aneta Moszczyńska
ABSTRACT:
The article analyzes and systematizes different political and institutional perspectives of defining and arrangement of relations between electoral and parliamentary parties, as well as the options of distinguishing between them in representative democracies. This is done in view of the fact that parties in representative democracies play a major role in organizing and articulating the demands, interests and needs of different groups of voters. Accordingly, the issue of theorizing and understanding political and institutional perspectives of defining and arrangement of relations between parties as participants in elections and fractions as parties in the parliaments of almost all democratic countries in the world was put on the agenda. To do this, the author analyzed and structured the differences between such notions as “party”, “electoral party”, “parliamentary party”, “faction”, “caucus” and “coalition”.
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