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Together with the idea of God and Immortality, Freedom was one of the three fundamental topics of classical metaphysics and it still remains a philosophical and theological issue of maximum diversity. There are various approaches regarding freedom that defend the precedence of sociology over philosophy in the sense that it exists at the social level, not at the ideatic one; these approaches insist upon a sociology of freedom that questions its culturalizing approaches, being secluded from the so-called history of ideas and denying the absolute freedom and the Kantian transcendence of individual freedom. Freedom is contextual: it is more an action than a state, an action conditioned by evolutional factual elements (from manumission – the act of freeing slaves – to the only exertion of freedom provided by the free market). ; peer-reviewed

It is obvious today that the democratic political regime cannot be considered reality without taking into account political parties; it is as obvious as the phenomenon of partidocracy, expressed through the quasi-total domination of parties in politics. Such judgements prompted the title of the book Stasiology and Electoral Systems. The book itself revives the term stasiology, introduced by M. Duverger in 1951, which defines the science of political parties but has not been used very much over the last decades. Its approach is explanatory and perspective alike, emphasizing the myriad of correl