stasiology
The study of political parties.
rare, uncountable
The development of the science of political parties (it could perhaps be called stasiology).
The process by which a governing body remains static or self-perpetuating due to internal conflict.
uncountable
His Encounter review (September 1960) included the following prophetic passage about ‘stasiology’: the study of the breakdown or paralysis of the State.
Where it comes from
Borrowed from French stasiologie, coined in 1951 by French jurist, sociologist and politician Maurice Duverger (1917–2014) from stase (“stasis”) + -iologie (“-ology, indicating the study of a particular subject”), because of the way the opposition of political parties tends to prevent governments from making dramatic changes.
Adapted from the Wiktionary entry stasiology (CC BY-SA 4.0).