Question

How the political parties linked to representative democracies ? 0?

Answer 1

If we take into view modern democracies in their institutional complexity, an unlikely source of support for a conciliatory conception of democracy comes to the fore. Anthony Downs’s theory of multiparty electoral competition is rightly associated with an elitist strand of political theory. Downs argues that party elites tailor political platforms to the preferences of median voters in order to capture positions in government. As it stands, this view is in stark opposition to the civic ideal of public deliberation amongst citizens aiming to advance the justice of their societies. Once we adopt the view to fit the motivational profile of citizens as deliberative democrats conceive them, however, Downs’s model offers important insights into the conciliatory dynamic of multiparty competition. Furthermore, political parties appear as central institutions in modern democracies and vital to establishing the equal epistemic authority of citizens and achieving the ideal of epistemic conciliation in politics. They constitute collective epistemic agents which develop conceptions of justice sufficiently coherent and sufficiently specific for the task of governing modern societies. The inbuilt tendency of multiparty competition and the post-election coalition formation process display an inbuilt tendency toward the epistemic conciliation of these political platforms.

MARK BRAINLIEST ..