Political Science 1020E Lecture 35: Lecture 35
15 May 2020
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Lecture plan: define the political party and identify its role in democracy, explore the main types of party, establish how and why party organization matter (does it matter how parties organize themselves internally) A party: a group for people organized for the purpose of winning governmental power, usually with a common ideological orientation. They draw together people of like minds and work towards achieving a similar vision of society: they develop a program covering a wire array of issues. Initial resistance parties as factions (tiny segments of broad population: ee schattschneider: modern democracy is unthinkable save in terms of parties . Parties participate in elections, compete with each other, ultimately try to satisfy the population: elite formation and recruitment. Parties try to find the good people to represent society: goal formulation. The parties are coming up with programs that they intend to implement once they are in office.
