POLS 1400 : Chapter 14.docx

• School: University of Guelph
• Department: Political Science
• Course: POLS 1400
• Professor: Nanita Mohan

Document Summary

Chapter #14: political parties and the party system: political parties are integral to the operation of almost every aspect of a modern political system, but canadians are more attuned to their negatives than positives, widely criticized for their partisan appointments, for their vicious attacks on each other and each others leaders, and for their loud and often obnoxious behavior during question period, for most of 1867, liberal and progressive conservative parties dominated. Theoretical considerations: a political party can be defined as an organization that nominates candidates and contests elections in order to influence the personnel and policy of government, parties are distinct from other groups in society in two main ways, where as most other groups possess a fairly narrow focus and articulate a single interest, political parties are usually broaderin scope and seek to aggregate, combine, consolidate or appeal to many different interests or demands, recruit decision makers primarily by means of the electoral system.