political platform vs papers

political platform and papers both are nouns.

Word	Noun	Adjective	Verb	Adverb
political platform	Yes	No	No	No
papers	Yes	No	No	No

As nouns, papers is a hypernym of political platform; that is, papers is a word with a broader meaning than political platform:

political platform: a document stating the aims and principles of a political party
papers: writing that provides information (especially information of an official nature)

Other hypernyms of political platform include document, written document.

political platform (noun)	papers (noun)
a document stating the aims and principles of a political party	writing that provides information (especially information of an official nature)