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Government - E2 - P1
Government - Exam 2 - Chapter 7 - Political Parties
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| What type of party best describes the Tea Party Movement? | Protest Party |
| By about 1850, which were the dominant political parties? | Whigs and Democrats |
| What was the result of the election of 1796? | A president and vice president from different parties |
| Who were the bulk of the supporters of the Democratic-Republicans? | Farmers |
| The Whig Party was equated with opposition to what president? | Andrew Jackson |
| What event brought a party realignment? | The Great Depression |
| What resulted from the 2008 elections? | Unified Democratic Party control of the government |
| In 1994, the ______ Party won its biggest nationwide victory since the Great Depression capturing the majority of both the House and the Senate. | Republican |
| In the 1980s, the Democratic Leadership Council had ______ as its chair. | Bill Clinton |
| In the 1980s, the Democratic Leadership Council lost some support of minority leaders, environmental and other liberal groups when it began to stress a commitment to ______ success. | economic |
| Southern whites opposed to affirmative action, religious fundamentalists, fiscal conservatives, and social conservatives made up the _______. | Reagan Coalition |
| In the 2006 election, ______ took the House and Senate majority away from the ______. | Democrats, Republicans |
| In 2001, _______ took the majority in the Senate when a _______ Senator switched his affiliation. | Democrats, Republican |
| Parties & interest groups that function as intermediaries between individuals and government | Political Organizations |
| Organizations that seek to achieve power by winning public office | Political Parties |
| Those who supported the US Constitution during the ratification process and who later formed a political party in support of John Adams’s presidential candidacy | Federalists |
| Those who opposed the ratification of the US Constitution and the creation of a strong national government | Anti-Federalists |
| Election by more than 50% of all votes cast in the contest | Majority |
| Election by at least one vote more than any other candidate in the race | Plurality |
| One of the main parties in American politics; it traces its origins to Thomas Jefferson’s Democratic-Republican Party, acquiring its current name under Andrew Jackson in 1828. | Democratic Party |
| Formed in 1836 to oppose Andrew Jackson’s policies; it elected presidents Harrison in 1840 & Tyler in 1848 but soon disintegrated over the issue of slavery | Whig Party |
| One of the two main parties in American politics; it traces its origins to the anti-slavery and nationalist forces in the 1850s and nominated Abraham Lincoln for president in 1860 | Republican Party |
| popular label for the Republican Party | GOP –“Grand Old Party” |
| Policies of President Franklin Roosevelt during the Depression of the 1930s that helped form a Democratic Party coalition of urban working-class, ethnic, Catholic, Jewish, poor and southern voters | New Deal |
| Policies of President Harry Truman extending Roosevelt’s New Deal and maintaining the Democratic Party’s voter coalition | Fair Deal |
| Policies of President Lyndon Johnson that promised to solve the nation’s social and economic problems through government intervention | Great Society |
| Combination of economic and social conservatives, religious fundamentalists, and defense-minded anti-communists who rallied behind Republican President Ronald Reagan | Reagan Coalition |
| System in which competitive parties adopt a platform of principles, recruiting candidates and directing campaigns based on that platform, and holding their elected officials responsible for enacting it | Responsible Party Model |
| The tendency of the Democratic Party to take more liberal positions and the Republican Party to take more conservative positions on key issues | Party Polarization |
| Political Party’s entry in a general election race | Nominee |
| Political Party’s selections of its candidates for public office | Nominations |
| Elections to choose party nominees for public office, may be open or closed | Primary Elections |
| Tightly disciplined party organizations, headed by a boss, that rely on material rewards – including patronage jobs – to control politics | Machines |
| Appointment to public office based on party loyalty | Patronage |
| One party controls the presidency while the other party controls one or both houses of Congress | Divided Party Government |
| Elections in which candidates do not officially indicate their party affiliation; often used for city, county, School board and judicial elections | Nonpartisan elections |
| Nominating process in which party members or leaders meet to nominate candidates or select delegates to conventions | Caucus |
| Divisions of a city for electoral or administrative purposes or as units for organizing political parties | Wards |
| Subdivisions of a city, county or ward for election purposes | Precincts |
| Primary elections in which voters must declare (or have previously declared) their party affiliation and can cast a ballot only in their own party’s primary elections | Closed Primaries |
| Primary elections in which a voter may cast a ballot in either party’s primary elections | Open Primaries |
| Organized efforts by one party to get its members to cross over in a primary and defeat an attractive candidate in the opposition party’s primary | Raiding |
| – Additional primary held between the top two vote-getters in a primary where no candidate has received a majority of the vote | Runoff Primary |
| Election to choose among candidates nominated by parties and/or Independent candidates who gained access to the ballot by petition | General Election |
| Voters who identify themselves with a party | Party-in-the-electorate |
| Persons who vote for candidates of different parties for different offices in a general election | Ticket Splitters |
| Public officials who were nominated by their party and who identify themselves in office with their party | Party-in –the-government |
| National and state party officials and workers, committee members, conventions delegates, and other active in the party | Party Organization |
| Nominating process in which delegates from local party organizations select the party’s nominees | Convention |
| Primary elections in the states in which voters in each party can choose a presidential candidate for their party’s nomination. | Presidential Primaries |
| Accredited voting members of a party’s national presidential nominating convention | Delegates |
| Delegates to the Democratic Party national convention selected because of their position in the government or the party and not pledged to any candidate | Superdelegates |
| Statement of principles adopted by a political party at its national convention | Platform |
| Specific portions of the platform are known as ______. | Planks |
| Self described identification with a political party | Party Identification |
| Declining attractiveness of the parties to the voters, a reluctance to identify strongly with a party, and a decrease in reliance on party affiliation in voter choice | Dealignment |
| Long-Term shift in social-group support for various political parties that creates new coalitions in each party | Realignment |
| Third Parties that exist to promote an ideology rather than to win elections | Ideological Parties |
| Third Parties that arise in response to issues of popular concern which have not been addressed by the major parties | Protest Parties |
| Third parties formed around one particular cause | Single-Issue Parties |
| Third parties formed by a dissatisfied faction of a major party. | Splinter Parties |
| Electoral system that allocates seats in a legislature based on the proportion of votes each party receives in a national election | Proportional Representation |
| What are congress's formally declared war? | The War of 1812, The Mexican War in 1846, The Spanish-American War in 1898, World War I in 1917, World War II in 1941 |
| Lubbock is in what congressional district? | 19 |
| What is the current geographic strength of the Democratic party? | industrial Northeast and Midwest, Pacific Coast |
| What person and group introduced the “New” Democrats to the public as a “re-branding of the liberal Democratic Party? | Bill Clinton, Democratic Leadership Council |
| Following the Civil War, the ______ Party generally represented the northern industrial economy. | Republican |
| The Republican Party was established in what year? | 1854 |
| The Dixiecrats Party splintered from the Democratic party over the issue of civil rights and ran ________ as their nominee. | Strom Thurmond |
| In 1968, the American Independent Party ran _______ on the issues of school desegregation and busing. | George Wallace |
| A party organization that recruits its members with tangible incentives, such as jobs, and is characterized by a high degree of control over member activity, is called a ______. | political machine |
| What are the 5 root causes of third party formation? | Sectionalism, Economic Protest, Charismatic Personalities, Specific Issues, Ideology |
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