POL 101W Lecture Notes - Lecture 11: Party System, Oligarchy, Gfk Entertainment Charts
14 Apr 2017
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Classifying parties in canada: explaining one-party dominance in south africa. In democratic countries, parties compete to mobilize voters to elect their candidates to public office and to control the government. Political parties are viewed negatively by a substantial majority of the population in many countries: decisions of government do not necessarily reflect the policy positions presented by the party that has been elected to govern. Political party: an organization that has a central role in the competition for political power in legislative bodies and in governing. Socialist parties were formed out of working class movements: many parties had no money so they made party supporters pay a small membership fee. Few parties have been formed to promote the election of a particular individual as prime minister or president, a leader who can claim to represent the people as a whole.
