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plains the criteria that we used to select parties for study in 1950-1962. In essence, we required that parties demonstrate minimum levels of "strength" and "stability" before being selected. For legal parties, this translated into winning at least 5 percent of the seats in two elections. For illegal parties, we required evidence of support from 10 percent of the population over a five-year period. We departed from these criteria to include also governing parties which may not have bothered with legislatures.

Applying these same criteria to the same sample of countries (omitting only the Federation of Rhodesia and Nyasaland, which itself ended in 1963), we identified 50 new parties qualifying for study. These parties are named in Table 15.2, which also reports their years of origin.

TABLE 15.2
Year of Origin of the 50 New Parties Qualifying for Study after 1962
ID Code
Party Name
Year of Origin
087

Indian Janata (People's) Party
1977
116

French Democratic Center
1966
117

French Republican Party
1966
146

Greek Center Union
1961
147

Greek Panhellenic Socialist Union
1974
172

Portuguese Socialist Party
1973
173

Portuguese Social Democratic Party (Popular Democratic Party)
1974
174

Portuguese Communist Party
1921
175

Portuguese Social Democratic Center
1974
205

Danish Socialist People's Party
1958
206

Danish Progress Party
1973
207

Danish Center Democrats
1973
245

Swedish Communist Left Party
1917
267

Dutch Democrats 1966
1966
268

Dutch Christian Democratic Appeal
1976
364

Paraguayan Renovation Liberal Party
1961
377

Peruvian Popular Christian Party
1967
422

Dominican Reformist Party
1963
423

Dominican Revolutionary Party
1939
433

Salvadorean National Conciliation Party
1961
434

Salvadorean Christian Democratic Party
1960
435

Salvadorean Popular Party
1965
448

Guatemalan Central Aranista Organization
1974
449

Guatemalan Institutional Democratic Party
1965
440

Guatemalan National Liberation Movement
1960
474

Nicaraguan Sandinist National Liberation Front
1960
505

Burma Socialist Program Party
1972
513

Khmer Social-Republican Party
1972
514

Kampuchean National United Front
1970
535

Indonesian Secretariat of Functional Groups (Golkar)
1964
536

Indonesian Unity Development Party
1973
537

Indonesian Democratic Party
1973
586

Malaysian Democratic Action Party
1966
587

Malaysian Sarawak Alliance
1963
588

Malaysian Sarawak National Party
1961
589

Malaysian Sabah Alliance
1962
744

Sudanese Socialist Union
1971
766

Lebanese National Liberal Party
1958
775

New Iran Party
1963
776

Iranian National Resurgence Party
1975
783

Turkish Justice Party
1961
784

Turkish National Salvation Party
1970
805

Benin People's Revolutionary Party
1975
815

Ghanaian Progress Party
1969
872

Voltaic Progressive Union
1957
892

Togolese JUVENTO Party
1959
894

Togolese Popular Movement
1953
897

Rally of the Togolese People
1969
923

Front for the National Liberation of Chad
1966
933

Congolese Labor Party
1964

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