The phrase "a form of partisan" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used when discussing a type or manifestation of partisanship in a political or social context.
Example: "The recent legislation is seen as a form of partisan maneuvering that undermines bipartisan efforts."
Alternatives: "a type of partisanship" or "a variant of partisan behavior".
Instead, we have an executive branch in a leak-hunting frenzy, a Congress that treats oversight as a form of partisan combat, a political climate that has made "regulation" an expletive and a public that feels a generalized, impotent uneasiness.
They belong to an emerging group of conservatives with technological and PR savvy who specialize in passing off mean-spirited pranks as a form of partisan journalism, and whose passionate plaints against a perceived liberal agenda are rooted in name-calling rather than philosophy.
The Republicans have sought to couch their maneuvering in more benign terms, as a form of justifiable partisan warfare.
Setting aside the basest form of partisan politics, the answer was not very much at all.
But there's also been another form of pollution damaging the reef in the form of partisan propaganda that has left some people confused about the true state of the natural icon.
And it is a form of civic behavior that doesn't even recognize the word partisan.
As a die-hard partisan, he had to know that his willingness to provide untrammeled airtime to liberal candidates was a form of in-kind contribution that his measly $7,200, given to three campaigns, could never match.
On 7 August 1941, Pavle Pap-Šilja and Mirko Kovačević-Lala arrived in Split with instructions from the Central Committee of the Communist Party of Croatia to discuss the forming of Partisan detachments to fight the Axis occupiers.
In his luncheon speech, Huckabee had presented his decision as a teenager to become a Republican as a mild form of rebellion against the lockstep partisan uniformity of his surroundings.
