1. The role(s) of political parties in the nation 2. The major political party system in the nation 3. The advantages of the political party system in the nation 4. The disadvantages of the political party system in the nation Mexico: 🇲🇽 1. Allows for the people to find representation 2. MORENA 3. Allows for the people to align with different ideas because there are different parties 4. there has been a lot of corruption among parties Iran: 🇮🇷 1. They don't really have have political parties, any power is over ruled by the Supreme Leader or the Guardian Council 2. Not really any political parties but they have factions 3. eliminates the polarization of parties 4. limited competition, lack of transparency Russia: 🇷🇺 1. United Russia is the dominant party, and it controls the legislature 2. United Russia 3. stability and government efficiency 4. lack of transparency, control of legislature, China: 🇨🇳 1. Communist Party is the only allowed party, so the party is in charge of almost everything in the government and in the personal lives of its people 2. CCP 3. stability and efficiency 4. lack of transparency, punishment if a person doesn't align with the CCP UK: 🇬🇧 1. provides representation for the different groups of people 2. Labour Party and Conservative Party 3. Gives representation to minorities like the Scottish and Irish 4. More polarization, slower legislature action Nigeria: 🇳🇬 1. Mainly to provide representation to the vast ethnic group 2. PDP 3. provides for checks and balances, increases political participation because of the diversity to represent the many ethnic groups 4. because there's so many parties representing different groups, there is polarization and instability 5. Compare one authoritarian nation with on democratic nation by comparing and contrasting the role and effectiveness of political parties in the nations In Mexico and Russia, the parties both hold great power in the government, and the main political party is also the party of the president. Similarly, the both have corruption deep in their parties. In Russia it is greater because United Russia is the very dominant party that controls the legislature, while on the other hand in Mexico the legislature is too influenced by party action, it has more checks and balances due to the presence of many parties.