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POLITICAL PARTIES AND CANDIDATES

5. POLITICAL PARTIES AND Q12. Did political parties and
CANDIDATES – INCLUSIVENESS AND candidates contribute to an electoral
ENGAGEMENT climate conducive to the maintenance

FACILITATING FACTORS of public order and safety by avoiding,
• Political mobility of candidates preventing, and campaigning against
• Experience through the hierarchy political violence and speech and

of political offices actions leading to violence, playing
• Complete registration of political up of ethnic conflict, and irregularities
parties in the elections?
• Full participation by major political
parties Q13. Did political parties and

candidates provide the mass media
6 Programs of Government – and think tanks with timely and
Formulation and Articulation sufficient information about their

FACILITATING FACTORS programs of government and issues?
• Political parties have clear and
coherent ideologies, programs of
government, and electoral strategies
• Ethnic identity politics moderated

by issue politics
• Political parties raise adequate
financial resources for electoral

campaigns
• Political parties are able to build
technical and organizational
capacity
• Political parties coalesce rather

than splinter