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What are the roles of political parties and how effectively do they carry this out? Liberal democracy would not be able to function without political parties. They are a logical and inevitable result of representative democracy. Over the last 100 years with the evolution of political parties they have developed a number of functions. However recently there has been increasing criticism that these parties are not fulfilling their responsibilities. The most obvious role of political parties is to govern. They exist for the purpose of fighting elections and winning power so that they might govern. To the large parties power is all that matters because by having it they have an opportunity to rule. The Liberal Democrats who in the near future have no hope of power exists in a hope to change this and eventually gain control. However small parties who have no hope of ever getting into power must instead...

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