Political Parties – Notes

Political Parties: An Introduction

Parties are necessary to represent the people of a country.

They help to conduct elections and aid in organized functioning of the legislature.

Political parties reflect political divisions in a society and so they involve partisanship.

A political party has three components: The leaders, the active members and the keen followers.

Politics parties form a two-way link between the government and people and bring them close to each other.

Types of Political Parties

There are three major types of party system in use in various countries Mono Party System, Bi Party System, Multi Party System.

The Mono Party System is less expensive compared to other systems.

In a Bi System the party that gets the majority forms the government and the other party forms oppositions.