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Examine the concept of money and muscle power in a political party.

Answer:

The growing role of money and muscle power is one of the challenges of political parties especially during elections.

Since parties are focused only on winning elections, they tend to use short­cuts to win elections.

They tend to nominate those who have or can raise lots of money.

Rich people and companies who give funds to their parties tend to have influence on their policies and decisions.

In some cases, parties support criminals who can win elections.

In this way, role of money and muscle power becomes a part of our democratic set-up. Democrats all over the world are worried about the increasing role of the rich and big companies in democratic politics.