POLS-101 Lecture Notes - Lecture 7: Government Debt
18 Oct 2018
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A political party is a formal organization with a political program: seeks to win office and political power in order to put it"s personnel and program into effect. They play a linkage between the people and the politicians: distinguishing through the ideologies of the parties. If a party promotes ideologies to the people, it is called an ideological party. Pragmatic party/broker party/catch-all party: changes it"s ideological position to maximize votes. Movement party: arises from social movement and want to change society. Personalist party: when a party forms around a person and their ideas. One party system: sometimes there is only one party allowed in a country. Defacto: one party dominant, one party wins all the time. Multiparty system: parties that compete with each other and form a coalition government. Different political officials from different parties, joining together to form government. Parties have a problem of lack of interest from the younger generation.
