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Ch.6 Political Parties Flashcards

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Straight ticket

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Vote an entire party’s candidates

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Party functions

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Organize competition 
Unify electorate
Organize govt
Linkage institution
Loyal opposition
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Split ticket

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Vote for candidates of different parties

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Big tent

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Parties try to attract more voters by adopting ideas to keep extreme but not attract as extreme voters

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Linkage institution

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Link people and candidates; people have impact on govt

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Honeymoon period

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Parties are nice to each other following election for a few weeks

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The mandate

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Narrower victory leads to more opposition because minority is larger and has a better chance of getting compromises
Bigger if majority party has both houses or pres wins by a lot

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Caucus

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Early
Iowa still has caucus
Meeting of party leaders to decide candidates, not democratic, corrupt able

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Convention

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Came after caucuses

More democratic, speeches, candidates

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Primary

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What we currently have
Setup by parties
Most states use; open v closed, blanket

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Open primary

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Crossover voting

Can vote for whichever party you want

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Closed primary

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Have to register with party to vote

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Blanket primary

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Anyone can vote for anyone

Ruled unconstitutional due to right of association for parties

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White primaries

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South during civil rights
Because parties are private
Unconstitutional

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2 party v multi party

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Multi party: at large proportional-60% of votes=60% of seats; encourages many parties
2 party: single member-winner take all, if not in the two major parties, you have no shot
Ballot access- hard to get on the ballot

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Co opting

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If a member of major party takes minor party’s issues so it’s kind of good because third party has issues noticed but fewer 3rd party get votes since they have the same issue

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3rd parties

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Issue based
More lasting
Centered in candidates
Can skew elections by taking votes from major party

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How to fix a 2 party system

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Plurality
Double ballot majority and proportionality
Double ballot majority sets prerequisite that you must have a majority of voters vote for an election to be proper

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Party systems began

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1824
Fed v Antifed
Not parties by today's standards
Fed v Dem-Rep
Brits=fed and France=dem rep
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2nd large change in elections

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1828-1856
Whigs v democrats
NEWSPAPERS
Jackson-spoils system

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1840 election

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First wide spread use of primaries

Party based

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3rd party system

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1856- dem v rep (not ideologically the same)

1860- dem split➡️rep victory

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Union party

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19th century party formed by remnants of the democrat and republican parties

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Radical republicans

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Faction of rep party but bigger on certain things

Ex: the tea party

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Solid south

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Post civil war voted democratic because Lincoln was republican

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4th party system

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Progressive era

Reps➡️business interests

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5th party system

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New deal-dem. spent way out of depression

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6th party system

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?????
1980s moral majority v social equality
Moral majority= republican; idea thy foxy is there also to legislate a moral code

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Critical elections

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1800, 1828, 1860, 1896, 1932

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Converting realignment

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No drastic change of party in power but party in powers hold is solidified

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Modern parties

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Divided govt
Gerrymandering
Campaign finance
Negative ads 
Spoils system
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Divided govt

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Occurs twice as often as unified govt
Not necessarily bad 
Affects the mandate of each sector
Variations in size of majority 
One party controls White House and the other controls both house of congress
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Divided govt cycle

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Divided govt➡️partisanship➡️extremism⬇️

⬆️Extreme cand⬅️Less turnout ⬅️Cynical

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Parties in the branches

Congress

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Majority gets “const. Offices” aka speaker of the house and pro temp
Also get committee chairs and majority on the committees
Also get cloture(senate)
Cloture only takes 51 votes

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Parties in the branches

Executive

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Cabinet

President becomes party leader

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Parties in branches judicial

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Appointment process

Judges not identified by party but not going to nominate someone who us very in line with opposing party ideals

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Party identification

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Strong democrat➡️weak democrat➡️ independent leaning democratic➡️ true independents ➡️republican leaning independents ➡️ weak republicans ➡️ republicans

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Party identification

What most people say and what they do

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Most Americans say they’re independent or independent leaning republican or democrat
But people actually vote democratic or republican

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Dealignment

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People are moving away from democrat and republican parties

People say this but vote still goes to rep and dem
Our system doesn’t allow people to act on it

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Party levels

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Party regulars-base, work in campaigns
Candidate activists-follow the person
Issue activists-follow the issue

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Money

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Hard money and soft money
Soft money-supposed to be used for “party building” but both parties are guilty of using it for other things
BCRA got rid of soft money which caused parties to scale back on media spending

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Party independent expenditures

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Battle ground states-don’t focus on safe seats
Democrats have often raised and spent more money than republicans
Independent expenditure $>soft money

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Party system bad

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Not contrasting enough on policy–no choices

Too far apart on policy–no middle ground (current problem)

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Control?

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Media-little but of control
Candidate>party- candidate becomes star of the show
“Splinter groups” - Tea Party

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