Republic of the PhilippinesRegion IV-A CALABARZON

Laguna State Polytechnic University

San Pablo City Campus Del Remedio, San Pablo City

COURSE: SOC. SCI. 205: Political Science

Presenter: Ms. Danice Shine M. Ebora

POLITICAL PARTIES

SOCIAL ISSUES

POLITICAL PARTIES

“Every political sect…has its altars and its deified heroes, its relics and its pilgrimages,

its canonized martyrs and confessors, and its legendary

miracles.”– Lord Macaulay

LET’S REFLECT ON THE

QUOTATIONWhat is your

interpretation of the quotation of Lord

Macaulay regarding politics?

“Every political sect…has its altars and its deified heroes, its relics and its pilgrimages,

its canonized martyrs and confessors, and its legendary

miracles.”– Lord Macaulay

INTERPRETATION• Altars - the government

itself• Pilgrimages - conventions• Heroes, martyrs and

confessors - spiritual glue of the party (actors)

• Relics - venerated policies• Legendary miracles -

changes made

What is a POLITICAL

PARTY?

Political PartyAccording to Giovanni

Sartori, a PARTY is “any political group that presents at elections, and is capable of placing through elections, candidates for public office”.

POLITICAL PARTY(Democratic and

Autocratic)

DEMOCRATIC AUTOCRATIC

provide citizens with choices about the personnel and policies of their government.

do not provide citizens with choices about the personnel and policies of their government.

compete openly in an electoral process.

one party dominates and there is no external competition. All competition takes place within the one existing party.

Autocratic

Democratic

Classifying

Parties

Maurice Duverger’s Classic

Categorization of Political Parties by

Organization

Classic Categorization

of Political Parties by

Organization

Cadre Parties

Devotee PartyMass

Parties

Cadre Parties the suffrage was largely

restricted to taxpayers and property owners, and, even when the right to vote was given to larger numbers of people, political influence was essentially limited to a very small segment of the population. The mass of people were limited to the role of spectators rather than that of active participants.

Cadre Partiesi.e., parties dominated by politically elite

groups of activists

Mass PartiesOutside the parliamentOpen membership

workers peasants

religious groups

Mass Parties

People's Alliance for Democracy (PAD)

Devotee PartiesA charismatic leader

along with a ruling elite directs and controls the party.

Selective membership

Probationary period to test loyalty

Devotee Parties

Categorization of Political Parties by the Type of Appeal

Categorization of Political Parties by the Type of Appeal

Catch-all Party

Ideological

Catch-all partyNon-ideologicalValues the needs and

not the ideology

IdeologicalValues ideologies highly

Functions of Political Parties

Recruitment, Nomination, Election and Training of Political Officeholders

Interest Aggregation

and Articulation

Political Socialization

Communication

Policy-making

Party Sytems

What is a PARTY SYSTEM?

It is the network of relationship among parties.

Types of Party Systems

Type of System ExampleNo Party Systems Often developing states under

military rule

Non competitive(one party)

1.) Totalitarian2.) Authoritarian

Low-Competitive Systems

1.) Low Competition

Competitive Systems(2 or more parties)

1.) Two party2.) Multi-Party

Thank you for listening!!!