Political Party Research Paper

Political parties
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Introduction
Political parties are vehicles of change, as political ideas that affect the social, economic and environmentalissues are realized through the political platforms. This is basically due to the fact that political parties are organizations that seek to influence the government policies and the lives of the paeple. Even the bible point out the importance of political systems in Mathew 22:17-21,
‘Tell us, then, what you think. Is it lawful to pay taxes to Caesar, or not?” But Jesus, aware of their malice, said, “Why put me to the test, you hypocrites? Show me the coin for the tax.” And they brought him a denarius. And Jesus said to them, “Whose likeness and inscription is this?” They said, “Caesar's.” Then he said to them, therefore render to Caesar the things that are Caesar's, and to God the things that are God's.’
The people have the mandate to elect the candidates that represent their interests to these offices through the political parties to ensure that their issues are addressed. This is a process that usually involves electoral campaigning towards the electorates, within a given jurisdiction as postulated by the constitution of the country. To further enhance their appeal to the electorates, political parties espouse aspects such ideologies which relate to the struggles and the goals of the electorate at any given time. As such political parties can easily change their ideologies depending on the needs of the electorate at the time. This gives them an element of historical background, as each party is borne of a certain time period and the ideologies related. Depending on the policy platforms that a party uses and the policy changes and their impacts, a party can easily redefine its political power. The people in the party and the support it has from the electorate relative to the political ideology, a party may amass political power and have influence nationally and even internationally. In countries within the Middle East such as Egypt, Iran, Israel and Turkey political parties have also had major impacts relative to policy change, ideologies, political power, governance and even development among other factors. This paper tries to establish some of the aspects such as histories, ideologies, policy platforms, political power source and the level of importance nationally and internationally for some of the major political parties in Egypt, Iran, Israel and Turkey. A good majority of the countries in the Middle East have had a turbulent past, as they struggle to embrace democracy amidst autocratic and theocratic rulers. As such, political parties in this region have a rather complex system of development in light of the condition that they have to work with. The bible does highlight on the need for god in a nation in Psalms 33: 12 , where it states ‘Blessed is the nation whose God is the Lord, the people whom he has chosen as his heritage!’.
Egypt
This is a country that has had quite a share of the political upheavals within the last five years. In 2013, President Mohamed Morsiwas removed from office by the army following some of the most historical anti-brotherhoo...