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Question
Explain, how the rise of political parties are directly linked to the emergence of representative democracies.
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Solution
- Large societies need representative democracy. As societies became large and complex, they also needed some agency to gather different views on various issues and to present these to the government.
- They needed some ways, to bring various representatives together so that a responsible government could be formed.
- They needed a mechanism to support or restrain the government, make policies, justify or oppose them.
- Political parties fulfill these needs that every representative government has.
- We can say that parties are a necessary condition for a democracy.
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