what is the role of political parties in a democracy
UNIVERSITY OF BOTSWANA
BACHELOR OF SOCIAL WORK
INTRODUCTION TO POLITICAL SCIENCE-POL101
QUESTION 1: WHAT IS THE ROLE OF POLITICAL PARTIES IN DEMOCRACY? DISCUSS WITH THE AID OF EXAMPLES.
04/10/2013
INTRODUCTION
The purpose of this essay is to discuss the roles of political parties in a democracy. Before going any further, the discussion will start with an introduction where key terminologies making the question will be defined, secondly a discussion on roles played by political parties in a democracy with the aid of examples and lastly a conclusion based on the discussion.
The key terminologies to be defined are role, politics, political parties and democracy. The term role which was first recorded in English in 1606 came from French already having the sense, a part one has to play states ”. Meanwhile role according to it is a function or positions that need to be played. Furthermore the writer mentions that politics focuses on conflicts and differences of perspective in a society about what to do, what resources to collect for public use and how those resources should be spent. Another author argues that politics is simply the activity by which Government is made possible when different interests in an area to be governed grows powerful enough to need to be conciliated thus the solution to the problem of order which chooses conciliation rather than violence. Moreover political parties according to are special form of social organization and should not be confused with associations, federations and social clubs. In addition states that a well-known definition of political parties comes from the American Political Scientist Antony Downs who wrote; A political party is a team of men seeking to control the governing apparatus by gaining office in a duly constituted election. Furthermore the Italian scholar Glovanni Sartoi who has lectured for a long time at the Columbia University and is internationally one of the most
BACHELOR OF SOCIAL WORK
INTRODUCTION TO POLITICAL SCIENCE-POL101
QUESTION 1: WHAT IS THE ROLE OF POLITICAL PARTIES IN DEMOCRACY? DISCUSS WITH THE AID OF EXAMPLES.
04/10/2013
INTRODUCTION
The purpose of this essay is to discuss the roles of political parties in a democracy. Before going any further, the discussion will start with an introduction where key terminologies making the question will be defined, secondly a discussion on roles played by political parties in a democracy with the aid of examples and lastly a conclusion based on the discussion.
The key terminologies to be defined are role, politics, political parties and democracy. The term role which was first recorded in English in 1606 came from French already having the sense, a part one has to play states ”. Meanwhile role according to it is a function or positions that need to be played. Furthermore the writer mentions that politics focuses on conflicts and differences of perspective in a society about what to do, what resources to collect for public use and how those resources should be spent. Another author argues that politics is simply the activity by which Government is made possible when different interests in an area to be governed grows powerful enough to need to be conciliated thus the solution to the problem of order which chooses conciliation rather than violence. Moreover political parties according to are special form of social organization and should not be confused with associations, federations and social clubs. In addition states that a well-known definition of political parties comes from the American Political Scientist Antony Downs who wrote; A political party is a team of men seeking to control the governing apparatus by gaining office in a duly constituted election. Furthermore the Italian scholar Glovanni Sartoi who has lectured for a long time at the Columbia University and is internationally one of the most
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