Generelt har partierne ikke et godt omdømme, de ses som "levebrødspolitikkens" priviligerede aktører, som maskiner der i egen, oftere end vælgernes interesse kæmper om magten, og som ophavsmænd til mere eller mindre moralsk acceptable "manøvrer".
As a general rule, the parties do not have an excellent press, they are seen as privileged actors of "politicking" politics, like machines fighting to obtain power in their own interests more often than in the interests of those they are supposed to defend and as the authors of more or less morally acceptable "manoeuvring".