POLITICAL PARTIES AND ELECTORAL POLITICS
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Parties fulfill different roles for different actors.
Parties simplify voters' electoral choices
Parties help candidates gain political power
Parties provide elected officials a common set of principles that help them govern
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Which of the following statements best reflects the centralized role of the Executive Office of the President (EOP) relative to departments?
a. EOP and department personnel are both loyal to the president, but both lack policy expertise. b. EOP and department personnel both lack loyalty to the president, but both have policy expertise. c. EOP personnel are more loyal to the president but possess less policy expertise than department personnel. d. EOP personnel are less loyal to the president but possess greater policy expertise than department personnel. e. EOP and department personnel are loyal to the president, and both have policy expertise.
Which of the following statements about the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) is INCORRECT?
a. It was the first major Indian party to mobilize on the basis of religious identity. b. The BJP is a highly centralized and well-disciplined political party. c. It was the first major Indian party to adopt an openly anti-Muslim stance. d. The BJP maintains close ties to two nonparliamentary groups through which many of its leaders have been recruited. e. The BJP has been the ruling party only once in the history of the country.