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Chapter : 2. Political Parties
Popular participation in political parties
Popular participation in political parties : (a) Political parties do not enjoy much trust among the people in South Asia. The proportion of those who say their trust in political parties is ‘not much’ or ‘not at all’ is more than those who have ‘some’ or ‘great’ trust. (b) The same is true of most other democracies as well. Political parties are one of the least trusted institutions all over the world. (c) Yes the level of participation in the activities of political parties was fairly high. The proportion of those who said they were members of any political party was higher in India than many advanced countries like Canada, Japan, Spain and South Korea. (d) Over the last three decades the proportion of those who report to be members of political parties in India has gone up steadily. (e) The proportion of those who say they feel ‘close to political party’ has also gone up in India in this period.