| Sumario: | This article highlights the importance of Giovanni Sartori's contributions to political science and considers two themes-debates as a pretext for doing so. From the review of the criticisms and reformulations made by the Italian political scientist on the well-known Laws of Duverger and The Iron Law of the oligarchy in the organizations analyzes the way Sartori argued and emphasizes in some of his contributions to the discipline: Rigor in the management of concepts; Permanent dialogue with classical authors; The possibility of establishing bounded or conditioned generalizations, but with the pretensions of establishing regularities to avoid casuistry and to be able to advance in the discipline, especially through the comparison; The conviction that it is possible to find causal relations in the analysis of political problems, that these can be enunciated as medium-range propositions; That it is possible to design components of electoral systems under the premise of the "best system", the most stable, most inclusive and that develops democracy and, derived from the above, that it is possible to predict what the effects of the rules of the game.
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