Unit 3 - Political Parties

Question 1

Political Parties

Answer 1

An organized effort by office holders, candidates, activists, and voters to pursue their common interests by gaining and exercising power through the electoral process

Question 2

Governmental Party

Answer 2

The office holders who organize themselves and pursue policy objectives under a party label

Question 3

Organizational Party

Answer 3

The works and activists who make up the party’s formal organization structure

Question 4

Party in the Electorate

Answer 4

The voters who consider themselves allied or associated with the party

Question 5

Political Machines

Answer 5

A party organization that recruits voter loyalty with tangible incentives and is chats third by a high degree of control over member activity

Question 6

Civil Service Laws

Answer 6

These acts removed the staffing of the bureaucracy from political parties and created a professional bureaucracy filled through competition which removed opportunities for much of patronage used by parties to reward their followers

Question 7

Issue- Oriented Politics

Answer 7

Politics that focuses on specific issues rather than on party, candidate, or other loyalties

Question 8

Candidate- Centered Politics

Answer 8

Police that focuses directly on the candidates, their particular issues, and character, rather than on party affiliation

Question 9

Political Realignments

Answer 9

A shifting of party coalition groups in the electorate that remains in place for several elections

Question 10

Critical Elections

Answer 10

An election that signals a party realignment through voter polarization around new issues

Question 11

Secular Realignment

Answer 11

The gradual rearrangement of party coalitions, based more on demographic shifts than on shocks to the political system

Question 12

Coalition

Answer 12

A group made up of interests or organizations that join forces for the purpose of electing public officials

Question 13

National Party Platform

Answer 13

A statement of the general and specific philosophy and policy goals of a political party, usually promulgated at the national convention and most visible instrument parties use to formulate/ convey/ promote public policy

Question 14

Proportional Representation

Answer 14

A voting system that apportions legislative seats according the percentage of the vote won by a particular political party

Question 15

Winter-Take-All System

Answer 15

An electoral system in which the part that exceeded at least one more vote than any other party wins the election

Question 16

National Convention

Answer 16

A party meeting held in the presidential election year for the purposes of nominating a presidential and vice presidential ticket and adopting a platform

Question 17

Think Tank

Answer 17

Institutional collection of policy-oriented researches and academics who are sources of policy ideas and influence party positions and platforms

Question 18

Soft Money

Answer 18

The virtually unregulated money funneled through political parties for party-building purposes, such as get out the efforts or issues ads

Question 19

Hard Money

Answer 19

Funds that can be used for direct electioneering but are limited and regulated but the Federal Elections Commission

Question 20

Party Identification

Answer 20

A citizen’s personal affinity for a political party, usually expressed by a tendency to vote for candidates of that party

Question 21

Dealignment

Answer 21

A general decline in party identification and loyalty in the electorate

Question 22

Roe v. Wade

Answer 22

Preserving a women’s right to choose safe and legal abortion