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Critically examine the role of political parties in sustaining and stabilising democracies in the developing societies.

  • UPSC 2024
  • 15 marks
  • Politics of Representation and Participation

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Edmund Burke defined a party as a body of people united on a shared principle to promote the national interest. In post-colonial societies the party carries a heavier load than in the West: it links citizen and state, and it also has to build the nation. That role is indispensable, but parties have both sustained…

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  • The setting: a strong state over a weak society
  • How parties sustain democracy
  • The critique
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