Imagine that a scholar wants to develop a measure of preelectoral coordination among parties in democracies. if she thinks about
the level of preelectoral coordination between any two parties as going from running independently at one extreme to merging into a single party at the other extreme, then is she conceptualizing preelectoral coordination in terms of a dichotomy or a continuum?
This is because the scholar has conceptualized coordination in terms of extremes as opposed to binaries. Therefore, it is not a dichotomy but a continuum whereby there are two extremes with various levels of coordination along the continuum
