APGOVCh11.Jamian.Kortekaas

Question 1

Political Party

Answer 1

An organized effort by officeholders, candidates, activists, and voters to pursue their common interests by gaining and exercising power through the electoral process.

Question 2

Thomas Jefferson

Answer 2

Principle drafter of the Declaration of Independence; second vice president; third president; co-founder of the Democratic-Republican party.

Question 3

Political Machine

Answer 3

A party organization that recruits voter loyalty with tangible, incentives and is characterized by a high degree of control over member activity.

Question 4

Candidate-Centered Politics

Answer 4

Politics that focus on the candidates their particular issues and character rather than party affiliation.

Question 5

Party Realignment

Answer 5

Dramatic shifts in partisan preferences that drastically alter the political landscape.

Question 6

Critical Election

Answer 6

An election that signals a party realignment through voter polarization around new issues and personalities.

Question 7

Secular Realignment

Answer 7

The gradual rearrangement of party coalitions, based more on demographic shifts than on shocks to the political system.

Question 8

National Convention

Answer 8

A party meeting held in the presidential election year for the purposes or nominating a presidential and vice presidential ticket and adopting a platform.

Question 9

Delegate

Answer 9

The role played by representatives who votes the way his or her constituents would want, regardless of personal opinions.

Question 10

Superdelegate

Answer 10

Delegate to the Democratic party’s national convention that is resolved for a party official and whose vote at the convention is unpledged to a candidate.

Question 11

Donald J. Trump

Answer 11

The forty-fifth president, a Republican, elected in 2016; first president elected without prior political or military experience; an experienced businessman.

Question 12

National Party Platform

Answer 12

A statement of the general and specific philosophy and policy goals of a political party usually promulgated at the national convention.

Question 13

Barack Obama

Answer 13

The first African American president of the United States, a Democrat, who served as forty-fourth president from 2009 to 2017.

Question 14

Party Identification

Answer 14

A citizen’s attachment to a political party based on issues, ideology, past experience, or upbringing, which tends to be a reliable indicator of likely voting choices.

Question 15

Hilary Clinton

Answer 15

First female major party, candidate for president of the United States, a Democrat, who ran against president Donald J. Trump in 2016.

Question 16

Proportional Representation

Answer 16

A voting system that apportions legislative seats according to the percentage of the vote won by a particular political party.

Question 17

Winner-Take All System

Answer 17

An electoral system to which the party that receives at least one more vote than any other party wins the election.

Question 18

Partisan Polarization

Answer 18

The presence of increasingly conflicting and dividing viewpoints between the Democratic and Republican parties.