Comparative Party Typology

	Cadre	Mass-based	Fringe
Incentive	material/ financial	solidary/ social	psychic/ ideological
Organizational Style	caucus	branch	cell or militia
Societal Cleavages	one (socio-economic)	non-unimodal	many
Number of Parties	usually 2	multiple	varies from totalitarian one to multiparty
Electoral System	first-past-the-post	proportional	proportional

Voting Alternative: Optional Preferential