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The article is written in collaboration with Dmitry Uzlainer One of the key to researchers of political parties is the topic of the typology of parties and their gradual evolution/degradation. The key role in this regard was played by Maurice Duverzh, who distinguished between two types of parties: “personnel” and “mass”. The heyday of the "personnel parties", or, as they are also called, "parties of the elites" - the 19th century, when democracy has only developed, and suffrage was limited.
