3) modern mass parties.
Among Western political scientists we do not have a single point of view on the definition of a political party. This circumstance is due to the complexity and diversity of the object of research and dissimilar approaches to solving a specific problem, different traditions of national school of political science.
The most famous are several types of definitions of political parties.
This electoral type, which was based on, first of all, contact the party to the election process. The party is defined as "a voluntary association of voters who seek to control the government by gaining election victory and mastery thanks to an official post" (Vasti).
The basis for the structural definition