a political party is on the input side of a political system, that is, the demands and

interests of the people are collected from political parties and analyzed by the
government before any policy decision is made
E.E. Schattschneider (1942), a political scientist, did a comprehensive research over
party politics, concluded that political parties created democracy, and modern
democracy is unthinkable save except in terms of parties. To a certain extent, it is
impossible to run a democratic government without the help of political parties as they
have quite a lot of important functions to the government.
The main function of political parties is to ensure a two-way communication system
between the government and public.
bring aggregation of people of different interests
provide political values and factual assumptions in politics.
monitoring tool to the government

Without political parties, the government may be loosely organized and people's
opinions would hardly be reflected.