Political Parties

Political Parties

Introduction

Name

The Peoples Party. The name of the new political party which I have chosen is the The Peoples Party. There is big concept behind this name. Particularly talking about the US political scenario, where the democrats and the republicans have overtaken all the political ideology, my party would only be focusing on the mentality of the middle class people, whose ideology and thinking is entirely different from that of Democratic and republicans.

Slogan

“Liberty, Equality, Brotherhood”. This slogan represents the most important factor which the political party will be focusing on i.e. Equality.

Political parties and party systems are of interest to the scholar of comparative politics because they are constantly in flux. A common understanding of the political party, according to researchers, is of a group that seeks to elect governmental officeholders under a given label. Party systems are described by the number of parties within a given country during a given time, along with their internal structures, their ideologies, their respective sizes, alliances, and types of opposition. Party systems can have as few as one major political party, or may have many political parties. Elections are the venue in which competition for government office takes place. Elections bring changes in the policies advocated by parties, the seats held by political parties, and of course the composition of government. It is important to note that political parties do not make changes in a vacuum; change often comes in anticipation of, or in reaction to, changes that other political parties in the system make. This makes the party system a system of interaction between political parties.

Discussion

Political parties tend to differ in their organization on the basis of three factors: competition, institutionalization, and resource factors (Ware, 1996). Competition refers to ideological differences, as well as the way in which the party was formed. Institutionalization refers to the power relations both between parties and within parties. Resources refer to how the party perpetuates itself. Each of these factors is affected by the specific time in which a party emerges. Different organizational structures are thus related to specific social and political developments in the modern democratic state. Organizational differences become apparent when one observes the different faces or responsibilities of political parties. The three faces are the party on the ground, the party in central office, and the party in public office. The party on the ground refers to the political party as represented ...