[MODULE 7] Political Party System

Interest groups

An organized association that aims to influence
the policies or actions of government.

Interest groups

Sometimes referred to as pressure group

Interest groups

A more distinct and clear-cut position, in accordance with the particular aspirations or values of the people they represented.

Political parties

Primarily moves to acquire political power via winning elections and coalition-building

communal, institutional, and associational

Generally speaking, interest groups can be categorized as:

1. sectional and promotional

2. insider and outsider

Associational interest groups can be divided into 2, namely?

Political parties

A “group of people that is organized for the purpose of
winning governmental power, by electoral or other means.”

1. cadre and mass parties

2. representative and integrative parties

3. constitutional and revolutionary parties

4. left-wing and right-wing parties

Political parties have been classified into?

1. representation

2. elite formation and recruitment

3. goal formulation

4. interest articulation and aggregation, socialization and mobilization

5. organization of government

What are the functions of political parties?