Chapter 10
an organization that seeks to influence government by getting members elected to office and by coordinating the actions of elected officials in government.
What is a political party?
The ability for party leaders to get their rank and file members to vote in unison on legislation agreed to by leadership.
What is party discipline?
The formal structure of the political party and the active members responsible for coordinating party behavior and supporting party candidates.
What is Party Organization?
Form of partisan identity in which partisans feel animosity toward one another. (This is also referred to as Negative Partisanship)
What is Affective polarization?
Party identifiers who have been elected to office and are responsible for coordinating governance.
What is party-in-government?
The formal structure of the political party and the active members responsible for coordinating party behavior and supporting party candidates.
What is a party organization?
Members of the voting public who consider themselves part of a political party or who consistently prefer the candidates of one party over the other.
What is Party-in-the-electorate?
An election that represents a sudden, clear, and long-term shift in voter allegiances.
What is a critical election?
Form of partisan identity in which partisans feel animosity toward one another. (This is also referred to as Affective Polarization)
What is Negative partisanship?
usually represent themselves in public as being members of a party, and they may attend some party events or functions.
What is a Party Identifier?
A shifting of party alliances within the electorate.
What is Party Realignment?
An organization that secures votes for a party's candidates in exchange for political favors such as jobs in government is called a
What is a Political Machine?
The system that emerged from the splitting of the Jeffersonian Republicans is known as the ____.
What is Second Party System?
An organization that secures votes for a party’s candidates or supports the party in other ways, usually in exchange for political favors such as jobs in government.
What are Political Machines?
Form of partisan identity through which multiple social identities reinforce and magnify each other.
What is Mega Identity?
Practice in which those show support a political party during elections are rewarded with jobs in the government bureaucracy if the party wins the election.
What is the Spoils System?
The observed tendency for single-member district / winner-take-all elections to favor two-party systems and for proportional representation (PR) elections to favor multiparty systems.
What is Duverger’s Law?
Method used to choose representatives for the U.S. House
What is winner takes all?
political party system used in the United States
What is the Two-party system?
Increasing differences between the two major parties based on both ideology and social group identities.
Party-polarization
Electoral system in which the number of legislative seats a party receives is a function of the share of votes it receives in an election. (Contrast with Single-Member District / Winner-Take-All)
What is Proportional representation representation (PR)?
Electoral system in which candidates compete for votes within a district and the candidate who gets the most votes represents the entire district. (Contrast with Proportional Representation)
What is Single-member district/ winner-take-all?
Democratic political system with three or more major political parties that routinely win legislative seats. (Contrast with Two-Party System)
What is Multiparty system?
Democratic political system with only two major political parties that routinely win legislative seats. (Contrast with Multiparty System)
What is Two-party system?
An association of individuals or organizations that seeks to influence government to benefit members of the association or advance a cause they share a belief in.
What is an interest group?