Am Gov Chapter 8

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ongoing coalition of interests joined together in an effort to get its candidates for public office elected under a common label

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political party

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U.S. campaigns follow this, Republican and Democratic parties compete

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party centered

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individual candidates devise their own strategies, choose their own issues and form their own campaign organizations

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candidate centered

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serve to connect citizens with government

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linkage institutions

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narrows voter's opinions to two and in the process enables people with different backgrounds and opinions to act together

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party competition

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organized party on a local level and open to all citizens, Andrew Jackson's party, gave voting rights to citizens without property

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grassroots party

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disruption of existing political order because of emergence of unusually powerful and diversive issue, electric contest where voters shift their support strongly to one side, major policy change to bring new dominant party, change in coalitions that also changes sides

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party realignment

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system with only two parties

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two party system

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three or more parties have the capacity to control government separately or in coalition

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multiparty system

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each district elects a single member to a particular office

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single-member districts

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seats in the legislature are allocated according to a party's share of the popular vote

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proportional representation

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if there are two parties, the parties can maximize their vote only if they position themselves at the location of the median voter, whose preferences are exactly in the middle

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mediam voter theorem

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groups and interests that support a party

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party coalition

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women vote disproportionally for the Democratic Party

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gender gap

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minor parties that usually do not support partisan politics

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reform parties

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parties formed around a lone issue of overriding interest to their followers

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single-issue parties

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parties characterized by their ideological commitment to a broad and noncentristic ideological position

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ideological parties

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parties resulted from a split within one of the major parties

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factional parties

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selection of the individual who will run as a party's candidate in the general election

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nomination

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gives control of nominations to the voters

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primary election

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money going directly to the candidate to be spent as they choose

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hard money

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money given to candidates party, not directly them

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soft money

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relationship between party committees with candidates wince they do not pick the final selection

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service relationship

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raising funds by candidates

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money chase

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campaign strategists, pollsters, media producers and other specialists that deal with campaigns

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political consultants

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highlighting those aspects of the candidate's partisanship, policy positions, personal background and personality that are thought most attractive to voters

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packaging

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advertising or mass media that can be negatively biased to help one candidate by making another look bad

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air wars

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organizations units at national, state and locals levels that concentrate on the contesting of elections

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party organizations