Political Partnership

Abstract

The promotion of people’s political participation is one aspect of democratic political development. However, political participation in itself is not sufficient for the achievement of political influence. Political partnership should thus receive greater attention. It is when individuals or organizations with a sense of political belonging join together in some political activity. It can be classified into two dimensions, the individual and the organizational. In the first dimension, the individual has, for instance, cognitive, affective and evaluative stances to politics, a sense of belonging to politics, a fondness of sense form of politics on political activity, political ideology, political behavior and political habits. The second dimension, of interactions between individuals and/or organizations, involves shared perceptions of politics, shared awareness of politics, a shared sense of political belonging, a common ideology, a sense for political alliances and affiliations, collective action in a political movement, the achievement of unity and harmony and expansion in political alliance-making.