Political Party
A Political Party is an organization with a political position that fields political candidates (political elections).
- Context:
- It can range from being a National Political Party to being a Provincial Political Party.
- Example(s):
- The Democratic Party of the United States (since 1828).
- The Conservative Party of the United Kingdom (since 1834).
- The Liberal Party of Canada (since 1867).
- Conservative Party of British Columbia (since 1903).
- Communist Party of China (since 1921).
- Non-Partisan Association (NPA) of Vancouver, B.C. (since 1937)
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- Counter-Example(s):
- a Labor Union.
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- See: Democratic Political System, Two-Party System, Election, One-Party State.
References
2019
- (Wikipedia, 2019) ⇒ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Political_party Retrieved:2019-11-25.
- A political party is an organized group of people who have the same ideology, or who otherwise have the same political positions, and who field candidates for elections, in an attempt to get them elected and thereby implement the party's agenda.
While there is some international commonality in the way political parties are recognized and in how they operate, there are often many differences, and some are significant. Many political parties have an ideological core, but some do not, and many represent ideologies very different from their ideology at the time the party was founded. Many countries, such as Germany and India, have several significant political parties, and some nations have one-party systems, such as China and Cuba. The United States is in practice a two-party system but with many smaller parties also participating and a high degree of autonomy for individual candidates.
- A political party is an organized group of people who have the same ideology, or who otherwise have the same political positions, and who field candidates for elections, in an attempt to get them elected and thereby implement the party's agenda.