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tripartism|traɪˈpɑːtɪz(ə)m|
[f. tripartite a. + -ism.]
1. Division into three political parties or other groups. Also transf.
1954B. & R. North tr. M. Duverger's Pol. Parties ii. i. 222 A tripartism analogous to that in England at the same period where the Socialist party was taking up a position alongside the two ‘bourgeois’ parties. 1964Listener 1 Oct. 505/1 If different types of secondary school really were ‘separate but equal’, the attacks upon tripartism would lose much force.
2. A system under which representatives of three groups engage in consultation, negotiation, or joint action; spec. a system of economic planning by representatives of government, employers, and trade unions.
1961Guardian 14 June 18/6 The Soviet insistence on tripartism and triunity. 1974Government & Opposition IX. 405 The British flirtation with planning throughout the 1960s could be characterized as toothless tripartism. 1980Times 17 May 14/3 Meetings with Ministers are not the ‘tripartism’ that the TUC wants. |