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Chapter 15 Vocab
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Big Tent Principle | A strategy in which a political party seeks to build a broad coalition among individuals with wide-ranging beliefs, backgrounds, and priorities |
| Candidate-Centered Campaign | A campaign in which the individual seeking election, rather than an entire party slate, is the focus |
| Candidate Committees | Organizations that candidates form to support their individual election |
| Dealignment | The situation in which fewer voters support the two major political parties, instead identifying themselves as independent, or splitting their ticket between candidates from more than one party |
| Democratic party | Political party that currently aligns more closely to liberal ideological positions |
| Divided Government | The situation that exists when Congress is controlled by one party and the presidency by the other |
| Grassroots Organizing | Tasks that involve direct contact with voters or potential voters |
| Independent | A voter who does not belong to any organized political party; often used as a synonym for an unaffiliated voter |
| Libertarian Party | Political party holding the ideological positions that government should not interfere with individuals social, political, and economic rights |
| Linkage Institutions | A conduit connecting people to the government |
| Loyal Opposition | A role that a party out of power plays, highlighting its objections to policies and priorities of the government in power |
| New Deal | Franklin D. Roosevelt's broad social welfare program in which the government would bear the responsibility of providing a safety net to protect the most disadvantaged members of society |
| New Deal Coalition | The group was composed of southern democrats, northern city Weller's, immigrants, the poor, Catholics, labor union members, blue-collar workers, African Americans, and women who elected Franklin D. Roosevelt to the presidency 4 times |
| Party Identifiers | Individuals who identify themselves as a member of one party or the other, usually by registration |
| Party in Government | The partisan identifications of elected leaders in local, county, state, and Federal government |
| Party in the Electorate | Individuals who identify with or tend to support a party |
| Party Organization | The formal party apparatus, including Committees, headquarters, party leaders, conventions, staff, and volunteer workers |
| PArty System | The categorization of the number and competitiveness of political parties in a polity |
| Patronage | The system in which a party leader rewarded political supporters with jobs or government contracts in exchange for their support of the party |
| Platform | The formal statement of a party's principles and policy objectives |
| Political Machine | Big-City organizations that exerted control over many aspects of life and lavishly rewarded support |
| Political Party | An organization of ideologically similar people that recruits, nominates, and elects party members to office in order to control the government |
| Populism | A philosophy supporting the rights and empowerment of the masses as opposed to elites |
| Primary Election | An election in which voters choose the party's candidates who will run in the later general election |
| Proportional Representation System | An electoral structure in which political parties win the number if parliamentary seats equal to the percentage of the vote the party receives |
| Realignment | A shift in party allegiances or electoral support that propels a political party to majority status |
| Republican Party | Political party that currently aligns more closely to conservative ideological positions |
| Responsible Party Model | Political scientists view that a function for a [arty is to offer a clear choice to voters by establishing priorities or policy stances different from those of civil parties |
| Soft Money Loophole | The Supreme court's interpretation of campaign finance law that enabled political parties to raise unlimited funds for [arty-building activities such as voter registration drives and get-out-the-vote efforts |
| Spoils System | The practice of rewarding political supporters with jobs |
| Tea Party Movement | A grassroots, conservative protest movement that opposed' recent government actions, including economic stimulus spending and healthcare reform |
| Third Party | A party organized In opposition or as an alternative to the existing parties in a two-party system |
| Ticket Splitting | The situation in which voters vote for candidates from more than one party |
| Truncated Government | The situation that exists when one chamber's if Congress is controlled by the same party that controls the white house, while the other chamber is controlled by the other party |
| Winner-Take-All-System | An electoral system in which the candidate who receives the most votes wins that office, even of that total is not a majority |
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