Chapter 7 Flashcards
Define: Political Party
An organization that has a central role in the competition for political power in legislative bodies and in governing.
Define: Cadre Party
A loosely organized party usually established by members of a legislative body with the support of local notables. Cadre parties are concerned with electing members of the party to legislative bodies, rather than with building a strong, centralized, membership-based organization outside of the legislature.
Define: Mass Party
A party that draws its support from a regular dues paying membership and features a strong party organization outside of the legislature
Define: Party Convention
A meeting of delegates from party constituency associations as well as the party’s legislators and party officials.
What party has a stronger link between citizens and political leaders?
Mass parties, Cadre parties are father away from the link
Iron Law of Oligarchy
A generalization that claims that all organizations even those that appear democratic, inevitably become dominated by a small group of leaders.
What are some examples of Mass Parties?
Farmer’s movement, religious movements, nationalist movements
Define: Electoral-Professional Party
A political party whose dominant concern is winning elections and that relies on professional experts to market the party to voters
Define: Brokerage Party
A party that attempts to find compromises to accommodate a variety of interests (particularly regional and ethnic/cultural divisions) so as to try to build broad support across the country in a non-ideological manner
Name one Canadian political party example of a brokerage party
The Liberal party in the sense that these parties have attempted to find compromises to accommodate a variety of interests
Define: Programmatic Party
A party that has a distinct ideological perspective or a coherent set of policy goals that are consistently followed over time
NDP - devote greater attention to the development of a coherent party program and view themselves as more principled than other parties
Define: Personalistic Party
A party established to promote the election of a particular individual as prime minister or president
Define: Cleavage
A social division that involves those associated with each grouping having a distinct collective identity and distinct interests that can lead to the development of organizations such as political parties that reflect the different sides of the social division
Define: Two Party System
A party system in which two major parties contend to control the government. Two-Party systems are competitive in the sense that a single party does not govern for a lengthy period of time
Define:: Multiparty System
A political party system featuring several parties that are significant actors in the competition for political power
