Chapter 16

Question 1

This is a group formed around a particular issue or agenda

Answer 1

Interest Group

Question 2

The practice of voting solely based on party label

Answer 2

Yellow-Dog Voting

Question 3

Third Party representative for the Reform party

Answer 3

Ross Perot

Question 4

The smallest units of election districts and party administration

Answer 4

Precincts

Question 5

Practice of giving government jobs to friends and supporters introduced by Andrew Jackson

Answer 5

Spoils System

Question 6

Label given to a person who defends the status quo against change in the political, social, and economic institutions of society

Answer 6

Conservative

Question 7

Third Party representative for the States’ Rights Party

Answer 7

Strom Thurmond

Question 8

Political system in which several parties compete for public office and majority support; most common among European Democracies

Answer 8

Multiparty System

Question 9

This party has won more presidential elections between 1952 and 1988.

Answer 9

Republican

Question 10

Third Party representative for the Progressive Party

Answer 10

Theodore Roosevelt

Question 11

When a person votes for candidates from more than one party

Answer 11

Ticket Splitting

Question 12

Parties that rise from political and social issues outside the mainstream

Answer 12

Ideological party

Question 13

Label given to people who defected from their usual party to vote for Ronald Reagan in 1980 and 1984.

Answer 13

Reagan Democrats

Question 14

Third Party representative for the Green Party

Answer 14

Ralph Nadar

Question 15

This amendment called for the election of senators

Answer 15

Seventeenth Amendment

Question 16

When a candidate receives the largest number of votes (although that might not constitute a majority)

Answer 16

Plurality

Question 17

Term means a temporary alliance of several groups to form a majority to gain control of the government.

Answer 17

Coalition

Question 18

Third Party representative from the American Independent Party

Answer 18

George Wallace

Question 19

Amendment that limits the number of terms a president may be elected to serve

Answer 19

Twenty Second Amendment

Question 20

Describes the spirit of two-party cooperation

Answer 20

Bipartisan

Question 21

The lowest level of political party organization in a city; a division within a congressional district

Answer 21

Ward

Question 22

Name a candidate for political office

Answer 22

Nominate

Question 23

Voters who have no declared party affiliation

Answer 23

Independent voters

Question 24

Another name for a minor party

Answer 24

Third party

Question 25

Committee elected by the state Republican parties to run the national parties to run the national party between elections, raise money, and supply technical assistance in important congressional races

Answer 25

RNC - Republican National Committee

Question 26

Minor party that split from the major parties, generally over policy but sometimes over personality conflicts

Answer 26

Splinter Party

Question 27

Committee elected by the state Democratic parties to run the national parties to run the national party between elections, raise money, and support technical assistance in important congressional races

Answer 27

DNC- Democratic National Committee

Question 28

A small meeting of a political party’s top leaders and legislatures in Congress to select party nominees

Answer 28

Caucus

Question 29

Strong devotion to a political party

Answer 29

Partisanship

Question 30

Label given to a person whose political view seeks to change the political, economic and status quo.

Answer 30

Liberal

Question 31

A formal statement of a party’s position on a current issue

Answer 31

Party platform

Question 32

Government system in which only one political party is allowed, typically the system in a dictatorship

Answer 32

One party system

Question 33

Describe the functions that parties serve in the political system

Answer 33

The parties duty in the political system is serving as a watchdog over governed officials. Being a moderated influence and to nominate candidates

Question 34

Explain why party power has deteriorated in the past fifty years

Answer 34

Policies have become more democratized
Social media influence the party platform
Primary laws have reduced the ability of party regulars and insiders to control delegates and nominees
Social upheaval unrests violence and sparked campaign reform