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AP Govt CPHS Chap 12
AP Govt. CPHS Chap. 12
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Political Party | A group of office holders, candidates, activists, and voters who identify with a group label and seek to elect to public office individuals who run under that label. |
| Governmental Party | The office holders and candidates who run under a political party's banner. |
| Organizational Party | The workers and activists who staff the party's formal organization. |
| Party in the Electorate | The voters who consider themselves allied or associated with the party. |
| Machine | A party organization that regruits its members with tangible incentives and is characterized by a high degree of control over member activity. |
| Direct Primary | The selection of party candidates through the ballots of qualified voters rather than at party nomination conventions. |
| Civil Service Laws | These acts removed the staffing of the bureaucracy from political parties and created a professional bureaucracy filled through competition. |
| Issue-Oriented Politics | Politics that focuses on specific issues rather than on party, candidate, or other loyalties. |
| Ticket-Split | To vote for candidates of different parties for various offices in the same election. |
| Coalition | A group of interests or organizations that join forces for the purpose of electing public officials. |
| National Party Platform | A statement of the general and specific philosophy and policy goals of a political party, usually promulgated at the national convention. |
| National Convention | A party conclave (meeting) held in the presidential election year for the purposes of nominating a presidential and vice presidential ticket and adopting a platform. |
| Think Tank | Institutional collection of policy-oriented researchers and academics who are sources of policy ideas. |
| Party Identification | A citizen's personal affinity for a political party, usually expressed by his or her tendency to vote for the candidates of that party. |
| Third-Partyism | The tendency of third parties to arise with some refularity in a nominally two-;arty system. |
| Proportional Representation | A voting system that apportions legislative seats according to the percentage of the vote won by a particular political party. |
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