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confronts is the problem of faction.
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How to control for factions.
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How to control for conflict between factions.
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That is the issue addressed especially in Books IV and V of the
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Politics, where Aristotle goes on to describe
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by the term polity, the regime that he believes most
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successfully controls for the theme of faction.
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The essential feature of this regime, the polity, which in fact he gives
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the name politea, the generic Greek word for regime.
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The polity is the regime that represents, for Aristotle,
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a mixture of the principles of oligarchy and democracy.
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Therefore, he says, avoids dominance by either extreme.