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Political Parties
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Why are people drawn into party activity? | Material incentives Solidary incentives Purposive incentives |
| Material Incentives | Patronage Preferments |
| Patronage | appointment of individuals to government jobs as a reward for party work. |
| Preferments | other favors a governing party can grant to party supporters. |
| Solidary (Social)Incentives | researchers find that a large number of party activist cite the social life of party politics as a valuable reward. |
| Purposive (Issue-Based) Incentives | increasingly, people are led to party activism by their commitment to particular issues. i.e. abortion rights, gay rights. |
| What is a political party | A political party is a group organized to gain control of government in the name of the group by winning election to public office. |
| Why are political parties unique | commitment to electoral activity mobilization of large numbers of people devotion to political activity endurance or durability use of political symbols |
| What is the structure of political parties? | PIG PIE PO |
| What is PIG? | PIG Party candidates for public office; state, national, and local officeholders |
| What is PIE? | Voters with loyalty to and identification with the party |
| What is PO? | Party committees, officials, and activists |
| Party Politics in America points out that parties engage in a number of activities: | 1. They elect candidates. 2. They educate people and/or structure the political debate. 3. They govern and pursue public policies. |
| Parties also have some indirect consequences: | 1. They recruit political leaders. 2. They unify the divided inst. of government. 3. They socialize voters by transmitting the political values of our society. 4. They aggregate political power so that it may be exercised in the pursuit of policies. |
| Social Choice Problem | The social choice problem was that it was difficult for any legislation to pass in the Congress because opposing majorities could be constructed to defeat almost any given bill. |
| Collective Action Problem | The collective action problem was that nobody would perform the task of mobilizing voters to help elect candidates without getting something in return. Parties insured that voters would get candidates pledged to an issue agenda and that party |
| describe the common characteristics of those drawn to party activism | younger, affluent and better educated |
| identify the motivations of party activists | motivation to achieve certain policy or ideological goals. |
| discuss the role of party activists in the political system |
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