POL 100 Lecture Notes - Lecture 7: Personal Boundaries, Gerrymandering, Tactical Voting
4 Mar 2016
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The origins and development of political parties. Legislative bodies have always had factions composed of individual members with similar interests and perspectives. As legislative bodies, such as the british parliament, took the power to choose cabinet ministers away from the monarch, these factions transformed themselves in political parties. These political parties developed a central role in the competition for political power in legislative bodies, and in governing. Organization that seeks to gain and maintain political power though elections. Separate political candidates and organizations based on ideologies and preferences/goals for political system as a whole. Parties first appeared as a way to get voters active and involved. Sell messages in regards to the party"s ideologies, ideas and goals. As the right to vote started to expand, parties that emerged from parliamentary factions looked to local elites who had the prestige and finances to support the party"s candidates in elections.
