美国著名学者亨廷顿在《变化社会中的政治秩序》一书中提出:与非竞争性政党相比,竞争性政党更加具有发展动力,认为西方政党因为竞争性机制,存在不断变革的可能。然而,西方政党实际演进的过程又如何?纵览当代世界发达国家的各主要政党,不难发现,它们也在遭遇种种困顿,出现了政党衰落的倾向。首先是政党组织萎缩。最近几十年,西方政党组织整体呈 Huntington, a famous American scholar, put forward in his book Political Order in Changing Society that competitive parties are more motivated by development than non-competitive parties and that there is a possibility that Western political parties may make constant changes because of competitive mechanisms. However, what are the actual progressions of the western political parties? It is not hard to find out that the major political parties in the developed countries in the contemporary world are suffering from various difficulties and the tendency of political parties to decline. The first is the shrinking of party organizations. In recent decades, Western political organizations have been presented as a whole