Ch 8

Question 1

one of the two main American political parties founded during the 1828 presidential bid of John Quincy Adams

Answer 1

Democratic Party

Question 2

The other of America’s main parties united in the 1850s and backed the nomination of Abraham Lincoln in 1860

Answer 2

Republican Party

Question 3

people must declare their party affiliation and can cast a ballot only in their own party’s primary

Answer 3

closed primary

Question 4

a voter may cast a ballot in either party’s primary election

Answer 4

open primary

Question 5

an additional primary in which the two top vote-getting candidates run against each other

Answer 5

runoff primary

Question 6

a system in which competitive parties provide many functions for their organizations members

Answer 6

Responsible Party Model

Question 7

Jobs whose appointments to public office is based on party loyalty

Answer 7

Patronage jobs

Question 8

what coalition brought together social and economic conservative, religious fundamentalists, and defense-minded anticommunists

Answer 8

The Reagan coalition

Question 9

they are decentralized, not extremely ideological, receive support from a variety of social groups, and do not organize government sense that European parties do

Answer 9

Prewitt and Verba’s Four Characteristics of American Parties

Question 10

An election system in which each party running receives the proportion of legislative seats corresponding to its proportion of the vote.

Answer 10

Proportional Representation

Question 11

coalitions of individuals sharing common goals and objectives

Answer 11

parties

Question 12

What were the first two American parties?

Answer 12

Federalists and Jeffersonian Republicans

Question 13

occurs when a new party supplants the ruling party

Answer 13

electoral alignment

Question 14

caused by new issues and new voters (occurs roughly every thirty years)

Answer 14

Realignments

Question 15

year that the democratic party was made

Answer 15

1828

Question 16

slavery is the issue between democratic party and whig party in which year?

Answer 16

1860

Question 17

Bi-Metalism is which year

Answer 17

1896

Question 18

state/local or federal year

Answer 18

1932

Question 19

year of the breakup of the solid south

Answer 19

1968

Question 20

which American third party are factions that split from one of the major parties

Answer 20

Bolter Parties

Question 21

Which American third party attacks the established system

Answer 21

Protest Parties

Question 22

formed to promote on principle rather than a general philosophy

Answer 22

Single Issue Parties

Question 23

voters who identify themselves with a particular party

Answer 23

party-in-the-electorate

Question 24

a person who votes for candidates of different parties for different offices in a general election

Answer 24

Ticket Splitters

Question 25

public officials who were nominated by their party and who identify themselves in office with their party

Answer 25

Party-in-the-government

Question 26

refers to the voters sense of physiological attachment to a party, which is not the same thing as voting for the party at a given election

Answer 26

Party ID

Question 27

term used in government elections to describe the help or influence of a popular candidate or movement for other candidates of the same party

Answer 27

Coat-tails

Question 28

The congressional elections that take place midway through a president’s four-year term. It is a non-presidential election.

Answer 28

Midterm elections

Question 29

What are midterm elections about?

Answer 29

control of the house and senate

Question 30

why are midterm elections called a referendum?

Answer 30

The president has a lot to do with their outcome. Depending on how people view the president, they can vote members of the president’s political party in or out.

Question 31

what kind of government weakens the power of the president?

Answer 31

Divided government