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understood as an activity being participated by the society or the reaction of the society in lieu of certain aspects in the community in general (Nemko, PhD, 2017), which can have a short or longer impact

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Social Trend

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may find its roots in the social contract theory which states that social classes within the society vary in wealth and resources and that groups with greater resources and means exert power over lesser groups through economic and brute force exploitation

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Political Degeneration

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has many ‘faces’ and ‘forms’ and that this exerted power by a certain group is manifested in many systems

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Political Degeneration

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is the appointment or hiring of a person to a government post on the basis of partisan loyalty. It is a kind of “reward system” to the people who helped a political personality win and maintain office in the national, state, and local levels of government. It can also be used to limit political opponents and those who are against their party/system. This practice in politics embodies the notion: “to the victor go the spoils.”

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POLITICAL PATRONAGE/PATRONAGE POLITICS

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generally refer to traditional political families or the practices by these political families of monopolizing political power and public offices from generation to generation and treating the public elective office almost as their personal property

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POLITICAL DYNASTIES

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it is also called “multipartism”, which implies a party system that has more than two parties. In multiparty systems, the legislature
comprises several minority parties, resulting in coalitions or, less often, minority government by the leading party. Obviously, a democratic regime in multi-party is “shaped” by the type of multipartism. This is because different multi-party systems have different levels of fragmentation as well as different competition/cooperation patterns, which have to be taken into account while observing and analyzing the “level” of democracy in the country

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MULTI PARTY SYSTEM

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also understood as “electoral fraud”, which is also a widespread phenomenon. It is usually viewed as a purely economic exchange in which the voter sells his or her vote to the highest bidder. In offering money, goods, or
services there are three ways in which givers might hope to get recipients to vote, or not to vote, for a particular candidate

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VOTE BUYING

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