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Great Centralization in Party Organization

A party organization entails a particular party’s formal structure and leadership. Majority of the parties have a series of organizations rather than having a single party organization. Party organization is a reflection of the intergovernmental relations, and thus centralization of party organization is important to create harmony. Conflicts arising from decentralized party organization makes policy-making infective and unresponsive. Centralization of political party organization eliminates disharmony. A more centralized party organization means that a party controls national government and all the subnational units and thus eliminating partisan loyalties distribution between the central and sub-national government and locally elected politician’s tendency to articulate local interest (Montero 63). Centralization of party organization eliminates the subnational politicians’ tendency to articulate local interest to the detriment of the national politicians. Thus, great centralization of political party organization reduces partisan loyalties across the national and subnational divide and thus limiting conflicts and hence promoting one interest that benefits all the people at the national and subnational levels.

The centralized party organization ensures central policy responsibility, revenue-raising, and expenditure since this resources flow to the center of power which shapes the interest of the national and subnational policymakers. A great centralized party organization limits the tension that comes with decentralization of party organization in which the national partisans tend to suppress the subnational government’s autonomy to optimize their own capacity in distributing resources across the country based on the expected political payoffs (Montero 65). Through centralization of party organizations, national and subnational work in harmony to ensure distribution of resources to benefit all people.

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