Author Question: What do parties aim to do when recruiting political leaders? a. persuade potential leaders to ... (Read 79 times)

londonang · **on:** Jul 8, 2018

What do parties aim to do when recruiting political leaders?

a. persuade potential leaders to restrain their individial ambitions so that the party can achieve its collective purposes
b. encourage potential leaders to attain their individual ambitions and consider a party's collective purposes as secondary
c. advocate for a small number of issues that individual leaders care about, even if it reduces the chance the party wins elections
d. limit the involvement of ordinary people in the political process
e. all of these

Question 2

When structuring the nature of political conflict and debate, what might political parties do?

a. screen out the demands of fringe individuals or groups
b. include everyone in the political debates, even fringe individuals or groups
c. pursue only the public policy goals that party leaders care about
d. use every means to contribute to the discussion of policy alternatives, even adding false information in political discussion
e. work to make opposing parties obsolete in political discussion