2011-2012 Ap Government Vocab Ch. 8

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Caucus

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A closed meeting of party leaders to select party candidates.

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Congressional Campaign Committee

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A committee in each party to help elect or reelect members.

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Democratic-Republicans

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The political party founded and led by Thomas Jefferson.

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Factional Parties

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Parties formed by a split within one of the major parties.

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Factions

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A name applied by some of the Founders to political parties, to connote their tendency toward divisiveness.

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Federalists

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The political party founded and led by Alexander Hamilton.

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Ideological Parties

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Parties that value principle above all else.

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Initiative

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An election in which citizens can place on the legislative agenda proposals by non-government groups.

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Machine

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A party unit that recruits members with tangible rewards and that is tightly controlled by the leadership

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Mugwumps/ Progressives

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A name for party volunteers who later come to form their own reform movement.

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National (Party) Chair

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The person elected and paid to manage the day-to-day work of a national political party.

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National committee

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Delegates from each state who manage party affairs between conventions.

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national convention

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A meeting of elected party delegates every four years to nominate presidential and vice-presidential candidates and ratify a campaign platform.

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nonpartisan election

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An election in which candidates for office are not identified by party labels.

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organizational party

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A party that stresses national organization to raise money an give assistance to local candidates and party units.

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Personal Following

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The political support provided to a candidate on the basis of personal popularity and networks

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plurality system

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an electoral system in which the winner is the person who gets the most votes but not necessarily a majority of votes.

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political machine

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a party organization that recruits members by dispensing patronage.

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political party

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A group that seeks to elect candidates to public office by supplying them with a label.

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proportional representation

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an electoral system that distributes numerous seats to parties on the basis of their percentage of the popular vote

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referendum

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an election in which citizens directly approve or disapprove legislation proposed by the government.

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Second-Party system

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The arrangement of political parties initiated by Andrew Jackson.

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Solidary Groups

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Parties organized around sociability, rather than tangible rewards or ideology.

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Solidary incentives

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The social rewards that lead people to join political organizations.

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sponsored parties

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Party units established or maintained by outside groups

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stalwarts

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a name for party professionals, as opposed to volunteers

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Superdelegates

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elected officials who serve as delegates to the nationals convention.

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Two-Party System

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An electoral system with two dominant parties that compete in state and national elections.

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Winner-Take-All

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An electoral system that gives the only office to the candidate with the larges vote total, rather than apportioning numerous offices by the percentage of the total vote.