stasiology

Noun

stasiology (uncountable)

1. (rare) The study of political parties.
   • The development of the science of political parties (it could perhaps be called stasiology).1954 [1951], Maurice Duverger, translated by Barbara North and Robert North, Political Parties, their Organization and Activity in the Modern State, Methuen & Co.; New York, N.Y.: John Wiley & Sons...
   • In this study, in the light of latest trends in stasiology, an attempt is made to examine the potential role of political parties in initiating, directing and managing social, economic and political changes in Himachal Pradesh.1977, Ranbir Sharma, Party Politics in a Himalayan State, New Delhi: National Publishing House, →OCLC, page v
2. The process by which a governing body remains static or self-perpetuating due to internal conflict.
   • His Encounter review (September 1960) included the following prophetic passage about ‘stasiology’: the study of the breakdown or paralysis of the State.1993, Brian Crozier, Free Agent: The Unseen War 1941–1991, London: HarperCollins, →ISBN, page 35
   • As for the stasiology evoked therein (which would be working either at the heart of the One, or in the centre of a Trinity or Holy Family), this is a motif which – in different words, in another style and in view of other consequences – could very well describe one of the subterranean but utterly...1997, Jacques Derrida, “The Phantom Friend Returning (in the Name of ‘Democracy’)”, in George Collins, transl., Politics of Friendship (Phronesis), London; New York, N.Y.: Verso Books, →ISBN, page 109