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Comment on the decline of political parties and examine whether new social movements shall be alternative strategy for establishing link between government and society.

  • UPSC 2016
  • 10 marks
  • Politics of Representation and Participation

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Parties are organisations of like-minded people seeking office to realise a programme. Their core democratic function is linkage: aggregating citizens' demands and carrying them into government. That linkage is weakening, and new social movements (NSMs) are often presented as its replacement.

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  • The decline of parties
  • NSMs as an alternative linkage
  • Why they cannot replace parties
  • Conclusion
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