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Ch 13 - Parties and the Party System Flashcards

1
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What are Political Parties?

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  • Organized groups
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2
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What do political parties nominate?

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  • Candidates
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3
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What do political parties contest?

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  • Elections
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4
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What do political parties attempt to influence?

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  • Personnel & policy of government
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5
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How do political parties differ from organizations?

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  • Broader in Scope
  • Recruit Decision Makers
  • Contest Elections
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6
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What type of political parties are more democratic?

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  • Inverted Pyramidal: bottom Up
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7
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What type of political parties are less democratic?

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  • Pyramidal: Top Down
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8
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Where can you see a party’s internal democracy?

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In Its:
- Membership
- Leadership
- Policy Makers

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9
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What types of party organizations are there? (name 5)

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  • Cadre
  • Mass
  • Franchise
  • Cartel
  • Electoral-professional
  • Pragmatic
  • Brokerage
  • PRogrammatic
  • Ideological
  • Class-based
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10
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Explain the Cadre Party Type

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  • Elite Dominated
  • Loose Organization
  • Focused on getting members elected
  • Top-down
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11
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Explain the Mass Party Types

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  • Challenged elite domination of political life
  • Organized the ‘mass’ of population
  • Party conventions
  • bottom-up
  • Michel’s Iron Law of Oligarchy
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12
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Explain Michel’s Iron Law of Oligarchy

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  • All organizations end up being controlled by a small group of people (party elite / leaders)
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13
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What is the contemporary classification of brokerage?

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  • Catch-all
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14
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What is the contemporary classification of pragmatic?

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  • rational
  • Electoral-professional
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15
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What is the contemporary classification of ideological?

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  • Class Based
  • Programmatic
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16
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Explain Electoral-professional parties

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  • Focus on winning elections
  • Rely on professionals to market
  • Avoid taking sharp ideological positions
  • Related to brokerage
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17
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Explain programmatic parties

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  • distinct ideological perspectives
  • Less likely to sacrifice ideology for vote
  • Might shift toward electoral professional model if experience some success
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18
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When was the first party system in Canada?

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1867-1921

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19
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When was the second party system?

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1921-1957

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20
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When was the Third Party System in Canada?

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1957-1993

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21
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When was the Fourth Party System in Canada?

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1993 - 2015

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22
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Explain one-party dominance

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  • 1 Major Party
  • 1 Minor Party
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23
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Explain the Two-party system

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  • 2 Major parties
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24
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Explain two-plus party system

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  • 2 major parties
  • more than 0 minor party
25
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Explain the three party system

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  • 3 Major parties
26
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What are political ideologies?

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  • Package of interrelated ideas/beliefs about government, society, economy & human nature
27
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What do political ideologies inspire?

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  • political action
28
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What are some political ideologies in Canada?

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  • Liberalism
  • Conservatism
  • Socialism
29
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How do left and right wing party ideologies differ fiscally?

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Left-Wing
- Favours gov’t spending on social programs
Right-wing
- Favours lower taxes & debt reduction

30
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How do left and right wing party ideologies differ Institutionally?

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Left-Wing
- Favours reform of democratic structures
Right-Wing
- Favours Traditions

31
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How do left and right wing party ideologies differ Socially?

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Left-Wing
- PRomotes Inclusion
Right-Wing
- Promotes Conformity

32
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How do left and right wing party ideologies differ Legally?

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Left-Wing
- Favours restrictions on law enforcement & military action
Right-Wing
- Tends to favour fewer restrictions & more punitive

33
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What was the first organized political party in Canada?

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  • The Conservative PArty
34
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What party type did the conservative party start as?

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  • Cadre Party
35
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What does the conservative’s party ideology range from?

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  • Centre-right to right
36
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Does the federal conservative party have affiliations with the provincial conservative parties?

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  • NO
37
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What is the conservative party’s political philosophy?

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  • Conservatism balances fiscal libertarianism and social traditionalism
38
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When was the last time conservatives formed government?

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  • 2011
39
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Who has been in power in Ottawa the most out of the political parties?

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  • Liberals
40
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What are the Liberals referred to as?

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  • The natural governing party
41
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Where does the Liberal’s ideology sit?

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  • Political centre, sometimes more right and others more left
42
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Are the provincial liberal parties connected to the federal liberal party of Canada?

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  • NO
43
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What is the Liberal political philosophy?

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  • Liberalism balances equality of result & equality of right
44
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What is the New Democratic Party (NDP) rooted in?

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  • 1932 Co-operative Commonwealth Federation (CCF)
  • Became NDP in 1961
45
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Where are the NDP’s origins?

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  • Socialist democratic movement of 1930s
46
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What does the NDP promote?

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  • Interests of workers and farmers
47
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Has the NDP ever formed government at the national level?

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  • NO
48
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What is the NDP political ideology?

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  • Centre-left to the left
49
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What is the NDP beginning based on?

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  • Formal partnership with labour
  • Canada’s largest trade union
50
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Does the NDP have close ties between provincial and federal parties?

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  • YES
51
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When did the Bloc Quebecois arise?

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  • 1990
52
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What does the Bloc Quebecois do?

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Within Quebec
- Field Candidates
- Contest Elections
- Advocates for Quebec’s Nationalism/Sovereignty

53
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When was the Green Party’s first seat win?

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  • 2011
54
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What does the Green Party’s focus fall to?

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  • Environmental Issues
  • Health Care
  • Human Rights
  • Electoral Reform
55
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What did the Green Party do in the 2008 Election with the Liberal Party?

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  • Colluded for Liberal Party to not field candidate in party leader’s ridings
56
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What did the other parties do to the Green Party in the 2011 election?

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Colluded to keep May out of debates

57
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What are the two perspectives on Canada’s Party Ideology?

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  • No basic ideological difference between Liberals and Conservatives
  • Genuine ideological differences exist
58
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