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WHAT IS A POLITICAL PARTY?
A political party is a political organization that seeks to attain political power within a government usually by participating in electoral campaigns ,meaning through elections or through revolution.Political parties are found in the vast majority of countries and in most political systems. The only parts of the world in which they do not exist are those where they are suppressed by dictatorship or military rule.Being the vital link between the state and the civil society ,the development of parties is a mark of political modernization.Parties may be authoritarian or democratic.By the late 1950s ,80% of the world’s states were ruled by political parties.The waves of democratization in the 1980s and 1990s led to a renewed flourishing of parties.Previously, what were called ‘factions’ were little more than groups of like-minded politicians formed around a key leader or family developed as a result of the struggle for influence amongst notables and......

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