Question

How do political parties try to get you to support their candidates/policies? Do you think these methods are effective? Why/why not? post in 300 words!

Answer 1

Political parties plays the psychological game with the general public to convince the people for choosing their candidates and their policies-

this can be classified as follows-

• GENERALIZATION OF POLICY- It implies that they generalize the policy that how their political policy/candidate would be beneficial for all the general public.in this term they may suggested the overall development instead of targeting individual / specific community.
• HIGHLIGHTING THE POSITIVE ASPECTS- they may only highlight the positive information about the concerned policy and hide or cover up the adverse impact of the policy. in case of candidate they might only speaks about their achievement but not about their failure concerned with implementation of the policy and promises which were earlier made.
• MUTUAL BENEFITS- political party may ultimately comes on mutual benefit to convince the person/public.they promises to provide better services concerned with education,health benefit,development work etc.
• BETTER AND PREFERRED SERVICE IN FUTURE- sometimes political parties promises to a specific group of person to provide preference in service in future it they would get success.

it can be result in both effective and ineffective,let us get it cleared by following case.

EFFECTIVE- there are chances that the political party would be able to convince the public to support their candidate/policy if the party have following capabilities-

• GOODWILL-if the candidate is reputed and having goodwill he would be able to convince.
• PAST DEALINGS AND THEIR FULFILLMENT- if past promises were fulfilled then he can get the trust and confidence of people.

INEFFECTIVE- there are chances that the political party would not be able to  convince the public to support their candidate/policy if the party have following limitations

• NEGATIVE IMPRESSION- if party has a negative impression,scams,corruption charges then public won't support them.
• INCOMPLETE FULFILLMENT- if their are earlier promises which were not fulfilled yet then people won't get convinced by the party.