Relevance To Today
Political Parties are still important because they shape our country and government. They organize our congress, if they're weren't any political parties the congress out be a mess. They are useful for the electoral process. Political parties are meant to give a voice to a group of people with similar interests. Republicans are still represented with an elephant picture and Democrats are represented with a donkey.
Political Parties are still important because they shape our country and government. They organize our congress, if they're weren't any political parties the congress out be a mess. They are useful for the electoral process. Political parties are meant to give a voice to a group of people with similar interests. Republicans are still represented with an elephant picture and Democrats are represented with a donkey.
Have political parties been weakening in the recent years?
To determine whether political parties have been weakening in the recent years you have to consider that voters are considering themselves to be independents more and more. Perhaps this is part of a cultural shift. This impacts political parties quite a bit, and as information about individual candidates because more readily available, political parties role as a filter is lessened. Also reforms over the decades have broken up patronage systems where political parties had control over many jobs. Lastly think about Campaign finance laws have changed that allow 527s and other groups to raise and distribute large sums of money. Prior to the advent of these groups, parties were one of the few ways that federal campaigns could raise a lot of money. Now you can decide whether they have weakened or not.
To determine whether political parties have been weakening in the recent years you have to consider that voters are considering themselves to be independents more and more. Perhaps this is part of a cultural shift. This impacts political parties quite a bit, and as information about individual candidates because more readily available, political parties role as a filter is lessened. Also reforms over the decades have broken up patronage systems where political parties had control over many jobs. Lastly think about Campaign finance laws have changed that allow 527s and other groups to raise and distribute large sums of money. Prior to the advent of these groups, parties were one of the few ways that federal campaigns could raise a lot of money. Now you can decide whether they have weakened or not.
By: Giselle Luviano
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