-POLITICAL THEORISTS AND SCIENTISTS, from Plato and J. Aristotle on, have attempted to construct classifioatory schemes of political systems to aid them in their colorations of politics, and such schemes have become particularly prevalent in comparative politics in recent years., However, recent typologists have not followed the prece-dent spt&dquo; b § their illustrious forebears in paying special attention to democracies. Aristotle distinguished five different kinds of democracies; but in the modem typologies, democracies usually either constitute one category, without any further elaboration within the single category, or are subsumed under a more comprehensive category.

In the two well-known typologies based on Talcott Parsons’ pattern variables, a dichotomous distinction is made, in Francis X. Sutton s terms, between intet1five agricultural and modern industrial s~ ielies, or, to use Fred W. Riggs’ terms, between agrarian and j1JdU8t1’ian socieUes.’Mod-