<u>Linkage institution is the structure within the society which connects people to centralized authority or government.</u>
The four main types of the linkage institutions are:
Interest groups - The groups which exist with primary mission of protecting concerns about a relevant topic are known as interest groups. Such groups represent issues of people.
Political parties - Political parties are most divisive type of the inkage institutions. The parties tend to be bit more general in the beliefs as compared to the interest groups.
Media - Media is newspapers, television, books, internet or other forums. The citizens can find out tremendous amount of knowledge about political process.
Elections - They give the power to the citizens to elect their government and also provide a lot of information to the citizens.
Each and everything has advantages and disadvantages... We have to choose the best solution.... Alliances depends on the agreements chosen before joining