Chapter 11 Flashcards
An organized group with shared goals and ideals that joins together to run candidates for office and exercise political and electoral power
Political party
Party organization that recruits voter loyalty with tangible incentives and is characterized by a high degree of control over member activity
Candidate Centered
The dramatic shift in partisan preferences that drastically alter the political landscape
Party Realignment
Signals a party realignment through voter polarization around new issues and personalities
Critical Election
Grandma rearrangement of party coalitions based more on demographic shifts than shocks to the political system
Secular realignment
Dying off of the older generation and maturing of the younger generation
Simple generational replacement
Candidates only need a number of votes to win
Winner take all
Another way of selecting candidates
Caucuses
A party meeting held in the presidential election year for the purposes of nominating a presidential and vice presidential ticket and adopting a platform
National convention
Representative to the party convention
Delegate
Superdelegate
Delegate to the democratic party’s national convention that is reserved for a party official and whose vote at the convention is unpledged to a candidate
Institutional collection of policy oriented researchers and academics who are sources of policy ideas
Think tank
A statement of the general and specific philosophy and policy goals of a political party, usually promulgated at the national convention
National party platform
A citizen’s personal affinity for a political party, usually expressed by a tendency to vote for the candidates of that party
Party identification
A voting system that apportions legislative seats according to the % of the vote won by a particular political party
Proportional representation
