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Social Science · 2022 · 3 marks
CBSE 2022 · Region 2 · Set 1 · Q8
Explain, how the rise of political parties are directly linked to the emergence of representative democracies.
Explain, how the rise of political parties are directly linked to the emergence of representative democracies.
Marking-scheme solution
(i) Large societies need representative democracy.
(ii) As societies became large and complex, they also needed some agency to gather different views on various issues.
(iii) These groups present these views to the government.
(iv) They try to bring various representatives together.
(v) They needed a mechanism to support or restrain the government and to make policies.
(vi) Political parties try to fulfil needs that every representative government has.
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