In a democratic society, parties, elections, interest groups and the media are all examples of __________ between the preferences of citizens and the government's policy agenda.
Linkage institution is the structure within the society which connects people to centralized authority or government.
The four main types of the linkage institutions are:
Interest groups - The groups which exist with primary mission of protecting concerns about a relevant topic are known as interest groups. Such groups represent issues of people.
Political parties - Political parties are most divisive type of the inkage institutions. The parties tend to be bit more general in the beliefs as compared to the interest groups.
Media - Media is newspapers, television, books, internet or other forums. The citizens can find out tremendous amount of knowledge about political process.
Elections - They give the power to the citizens to elect their government and also provide a lot of information to the citizens.