1. Dahl's Concept of Participation and Contestation
... of groups that can now participate more easily in political life. The parties also change in structure and organization. (Dahl (1971) Page 23) Also, broadened participation combined with political competition brings about a change in the composition of political leadership, particularly among those who gain office by means of elections. Thus when the narrow suffrage of a competitive oligarchy has been extended ... people's party representing the eastern Igbo, and the alliance for democracy of the western Yoruba.(O'Neil (2010) Page 553) This justifies Dahl's theory about broadened partic...
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