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    While political parties are not technically required, they have become an essential part of the US democratic system. Political parties help organize differing interests and viewpoints and provide candidates for elections. In the US, the two major parties are the Democrats and Republicans, though they are not strongly defined ideologically. Each party has a platform committee that outlines goals but platforms may not bind elected officials. Party membership in the US is informal, without registration or fees, allowing flexibility for voters to support different parties and candidates without formal constraints.

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    While political parties are not technically required, they have become an essential part of the US democratic system. Political parties help organize differing interests and viewpoints and provide candidates for elections. In the US, the two major parties are the Democrats and Republicans, though they are not strongly defined ideologically. Each party has a platform committee that outlines goals but platforms may not bind elected officials. Party membership in the US is informal, without registration or fees, allowing flexibility for voters to support different parties and candidates without formal constraints.

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    While political parties are not technically required, they have become an essential part of the US democratic system. Political parties help organize differing interests and viewpoints and provide candidates for elections. In the US, the two major parties are the Democrats and Republicans, though they are not strongly defined ideologically. Each party has a platform committee that outlines goals but platforms may not bind elected officials. Party membership in the US is informal, without registration or fees, allowing flexibility for voters to support different parties and candidates without formal constraints.

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    Variant 6. The Political Parties.

    6.1. Can a country be governed without political parties?


    6.2. Do the chief American political parties have clear political platforms?
    6.3. What is informal party membership? Are you in favour of it or not?

    6.1. Political parties represent groups of individuals that are characterised by having different ideologies,
    political positions which help to distinguish the parties from one another. The system of political parties
    is a constituent feature of representative democracy, because parties also provide candidates for
    elections. Theoretically, a government can well function without political parties, as the authors of the
    US Constitution thought that a loyalty to the party can outbalance the loyalty to the larger interests of
    the general public. Nevertheless, parties began to be founded and nowadays they are the basis of the
    American political system. They proved to be effective to organise the geographically big territory with
    large and diversified population. Political parties accommodate various interests, views and opinions.
    There are of course some risks of people joining together to form organized parties. But on the contrary,
    if they want to appeal to majorities in elections and legislature they need to function as consensus-
    builders. Thus, the goal is to find ways that will facilitate transcending differences in political
    factionalism.

    6.2 In the US political system, both Democrats and Republicans are not strongly defined ideological
    organizations. Their major interest is to control the government, a goal achieved by competing for the
    majority of the American voters. As a result, there may be cases when a party member does not agree
    on everything about the views expressed by their party. For instance, there are conservative Democrats
    and liberal Republicans. But generally, it is considered that the Democratic Party is more liberal and the
    Republican Party is more conservative. Each national party has a platform-writing committee, composed
    of major party figures and representatives of interest groups closely linked with the party. They do their
    work in the spring and summer prior to the presidential conventions. Platform writers have to navigate
    the tension between candidates’ desire for a broad appeal to voters and interest groups’ insistence on
    explicit commitments to their goals. Platforms may not bind elected officials, and they may go unread by
    almost everybody. Yet they do have meaning. Those who do read them can make a good guess about
    how a party’s elected officials will behave in office and changes in the platform are often significant
    indicators of change in the party.

    6.3 Party membership is almost always an informal one in the US. Members of a party are not registered
    in it, they do not hold membership cards, do not pay membership fees etc. One is not required to go
    through official formalities to be admitted to a party. During the elections, any voter can become either
    Democrat or Republican. They can cast simple declarations without taking any responsibility for them
    being strictly a matter of self-expression. The vote is secret so as nobody is forced to vote for any
    particular candidate of a certain party and its programme. This informality places emphasis on how
    people feel about a party or its candidate. It is important that the voters or even party members are not
    constrained by various formalities and memberships to, for example, change their mind if they have the
    need to.

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