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Evaluate the functioning of political parties in the democracies of the Third World.

  • UPSC 1993
  • Politics and Society

Joseph LaPalombara and Myron Weiner (Political Parties and Political Development, 1966) argued that parties in post-colonial states were expected to do far more than their Western counterparts. They had to build nations, integrate diverse groups, recruit new elites and legitimise fragile states, often before industrialisation or mass literacy. Judged against these tasks, their record is…

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