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Are groups of people with similar interests who work together to create and implement policies.
What are political parties?
A system in which two major parties win all or almost all elections
What is a two-party system?
Mmembers of the voting public who consider themselves to be part of a political party and/or who consistently prefer the candidates of one party over the other.
What is a party-in-the-electorate?
A process of cooperation through compromise.
What is bipartisanship?
One or more houses of the legislature are controlled by the party in opposition to the executive.
What is divided governemnt?
Identifying and aligning sets of issues that are important to voters in the hopes of gaining support during elections
What is a party platform?
Individual candidate with the most votes wins.
What is plurality voting?
Voter is more likely to voice support for a party
What is party identifier?
A district drawn so members of a party can be assured of winning by a comfortable margin
What is a safe seat?
Individuals with ideologies in the middle of the ideological spectrum.
What is a moderates?
Organizations that secured votes for the party’s candidates or supported the party in other ways.
What is are political machines?
Legislative seats are allocated to competing parties based on the total share of votes they receive in the election.
What is proportional representation?
Lowest level of party organization
What is the precinct?
The process in which voters change party allegiances in response to shifts in party position
What is sorting?
Manipulation of legislative districts in an attempt to favor a particular candidate.
What is gerrymandering?
Political parties that are formed as alternatives to the Republican and Democratic parties
What is a third party?
One that represents a sudden, clear, and long-term shift in voter allegiances.
What is critical election?
It controls more than half the seats in one of the two chambers.
What is majority party?
The reallocation of House seats between the states to account for population changes
What is reapportionment?
Redrawing of their electoral maps.
What is redistricting?
This third party one the popular vote in 2020.
What is the libertarian party?
This party system was from 1896–1932.
What is the fourth party system?
Millenials leaned more torward this party.
What is Democrat?
The legislative party with less than half the seats in a legislative body
What is minority party?
In 1950, this comittee published an article offering a criticism of the current party system
What is the American Political Science Association’s Committee on Political Parties (APSA)?