Impact of Party Politics on Decision Making In Government: The Nigerian Experience
Journal Title: IOSR Journal of Humanities and Social Science - Year 2018, Vol 23, Issue 4
Abstract
A political party is an organized group of individuals seeking to attain power to government in order to enjoy the benefits being derived from such control primarily for its members and supposedly for the masses. Political parties perform tasks both during election campaigns and between elections. Much of the workcandidate selection, ideological changes and policy making- take place within the parties rather than in the public domain. This paper therefore examines political parties as an important element in decision making in democratic societies. It argues that decisions/public policy which are to serve the interest of the populace do otherwise serve the interests of the political elites since the parties are formed by them and they dictate the manifestoes of the parties which invariably become the programmes of the government if their parties win the election. It adopts the elite theory as its framework of analysis. The paper concludes that party politics is imparting negatively on decision making in government since real politics which is the allocation of scarce resources is dominated by the political elites who will see to it that the allocation (decision making/public policy) is to their advantage.
Authors and Affiliations
Oluwatusin Adebowale O. (Ph. D), Daisi Simeon A.
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