Challenges Faced by Political Parties

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What are the various challenges faced by political parties?

Q. What do you mean by Dynastic Politics?

1. When the ability to function in a democratic system is given preference over the familial ties.
2. When familial ties are given preference over the ability to function in a democratic system.
3. When familial ties are not given preference over the ability to function in a democratic system.
4. When the ability to function in a democratic system is given priority.

Q. Which of the following are challenges to political parties?

1. Use of money and muscle power
2. Dynastic Politics
3. Fair politics
4. Lack of internal democracy

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What are the challenges to political parties?

Q. Which of the following statement(s) correctly depict(s) the challenges that political parties face?

1. Power is usually concentrated among a few leaders in the party.
2. Most political parties do not differ in their ideological aspects.
3. Leaders in political parties are selected from the regular members.
4. There is an alarming rise in the involvement of rich people in
   democratic politics.

Q. What do you understand about one party dominance? Would you consider it as dominance only in elections or also in terms of ideology? Discuss with reasons.

Q. The Democratic Party failed to win the presidency in the 1920s due to ___________.

1. Voters saw the party as responsible for the Great Depression
2. Its opposition to Jim Crow laws alienated Southern voters
3. It had opposed U.S involvement in World War I
4. Voters perceived that the party was overly friendly to big business
5. Internal splits existed between urban moderates and rural conservatives

Q. What is the practice of elected representatives switching parties called?

1. Fraternity
2. Secularism
3. Fleecing
4. Defection

Q. The Election Commission of India made it necessary for candidates to file their income tax returns so that only the rich contested.

1. True
2. False