Question

What do you think are the potential positives and negatives to partisanship? Fill in the table with at least two positive and two negative examples.

Answer 1

Answer:

Positive:Partisanship ensures that representatives in the government will stick to the policies of their party.

Voters who support one side of the argument can be more assured that their officials will represent their beliefs. Negitave :Partisanship might lead to deadlock in the political process.

Voters who don’t agree with either party will not have a good alternative to look to.

Explanation:

Answer 2

I think that the positives of partisanship is that the incumbent political leader will have the (1) unwavering support from his cohorts with regards to the projects, programs or laws that he/she will be implementing (2) their aspirations and objectives are aligned which helps in catalyzing in the changes that they may want to implement in the government or administration and (3) its identity can endure simply because it is strengthened by affiliating itself to gender, ethnic, religious and racial groups thus promoting a connection to a party which eventually generates political stability and diminish political influence by independents or nonpartisans. On the downside, partisanship may (1) promote divisiveness especially if its advocacies are met with great opposition by the non-cohorts and (2) there will be bias especially if arguments are thrown against them which leads to the scrutiny of the opposing views at a greater degree just to refute the said argument.