Public Policy, Ist Edition by Pearson

CHAPTER 6

Public Policy Making–The Role of Political Parties and Parliamentary Democracy

The focus of this chapter is to know the role of political parties and parliamentary democracy in public policymaking. In doing so, we will first understand the parliamentary system and its different avatars: Westminster system, Consensus system, Unicameral system, and Bicameral system. In the second section, we familiarize ourselves with the different types of the party system and the classification of parties. To know about the political parties in India, we understand how the political parties are recognized and which are national and state-level political parties. In the third section, we discuss the majority rule in democracies and the different types ...