Advisory Papers on Political Party Development - Vollume III

As indispensable instruments of the division of labor in parliament, political groups perform functions of representation, integration, legitimation, recruitmentand communication in parliaments. Internally, they carry out a service function for individual members of parliament and simultaneously secure the working capacity of theparliament. They prevent the parliamentary workflow from being overloaded by complexity and also work against the danger of deadlock that comes with too greata diversity of political interests and perspectives.