Book Title:
Trends and Changes in the Indian Political Party System
Keywords:
administration and governance, India’s democratic system, Constitution of India, political representation, colonial, nationalist and democratic articulationSynopsis
Political parties have emerged as the most distinctive feature of the process of political representation. They constitute indispensable devices of democratic politics for contemporary systems of representative governments. Most significantly, they form the link between the government and the people. The growing complexities of administration and governance of modern times accentuated the demand for a system in which people can choose those whom they can saddle with this enormous responsibility of representing them. The range of tasks parties perform make them central to all kinds of polities. Political parties stand for the act of representation with an electoral system and process of recruitment of its leaders, defining the goals and resolving conflicts within the internal system (Eldersveld, 1964, p.1). They create the organizational base for mobilization and facilitate political participation. People identify themselves with the parties in terms of ideologies, beliefs, and symbols as projected by them. In India, political parties are viewed as an integral part of our democracy.
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Siwach, R. . (Ed.). (2023). Trends and Changes in the Indian Political Party System. Shodh Sagar International Publications. https://doi.org/10.36676/978-93-94411-54-8
