The attack on politics, politicians and political parties and the praise of nonpartisanship are significant in terms of the control of the scale of c… - Elmer Eric Schattschneider

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The attack on politics, politicians and political parties and the praise of nonpartisanship are significant in terms of the control of the scale of conflict. One-party systems, as an aspect of sharply sectional party alignments, have been notoriously useful instruments for the limitation of conflict and depression of political participation. This tends to be equally true of measures designed to set up nonpartisan government or measures designed to take important public business out of politics altogether.