1. Function of General Elections: General elections serve to allow citizens to choose their representatives, provide legitimacy to government, ensure accountability of leaders, and enable peaceful transfers of power in democratic systems.
2. What is a Political Party: A political party is an organized group of people with shared political beliefs who work together to win elections and influence government policy.
3. Relationship between representative institutions, political parties, and people's sovereignty: Political parties compete in elections to gain control of representative institutions (like parliaments), which then exercise the sovereign power that ultimately belongs to the people, creating a chain of democratic legitimacy from citizens to government.
2. What is a Political Party: A political party is an organized group of people with shared political beliefs who work together to win elections and influence government policy.
3. Relationship between representative institutions, political parties, and people's sovereignty: Political parties compete in elections to gain control of representative institutions (like parliaments), which then exercise the sovereign power that ultimately belongs to the people, creating a chain of democratic legitimacy from citizens to government.