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23 Cards in this Set
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how have political parties changed over the last 100 years?
getting someone elected to office |
-money
-media -supporters -advertisment |
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how have political parties changed over the last 100 years?
now |
-PAC's
-527's |
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interest groups do not run a candidate
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characteristics of a weak party
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1. candidate runs their own campaign
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characteristics of a weak party
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2 split ticket voting
basing your candidate without regard to their party |
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characteristics of a weak party
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3. more independent voters
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Political parties:
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coalition or individuals that are organized to recruit, nominate, and elect individuals to office
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Comparisons w/ other democracies:
level of centralization |
in the U.S. parties are more decentralized
(state and local govts. are more independent) |
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Comparisons w/ other democracies:
role of primary elections in selecting |
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Comparisons w/ other democracies:
role of ideology |
broad-based 2 party systems vs multi-party systems
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Comparisons w/ other democracies:
influence in lives of citizens |
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History of political parties:
1st party system |
1800-1828
Federalists vs *antifederalist (democrats vs republicans) |
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History of political parties:
2nd party system |
1828-1860
Whigs vs *Democrats andrew jackson kicked out all Feds & brought in own ppl |
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History of political parties:
3rd party system (civil war) (lincoln was prez) |
1860-1896
*republicans vs democrats - demoratic split into N & S wings -rise of "bosses" and urban political machines |
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History of political parties:
4th party system |
18996-1932
rise of progressive party -Progressive party aligns witrepublicans -start of political machines -primaries started |
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History of political parties:
5th |
1932-1968
*Democrats vs republicans -role of great depression(republicans blamed for it) |
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party realignment
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a major shift from 1 party to another
-genreally tends to happen around a single issue that divides the electorate |
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characteristics of realignment
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-1 party must become the "dominant" party
- to be dominant means to control the presidency ex: 1968 nixon-vietnam war |
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split level realignment
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no one dominates
-republican president(strong on defense) -democratic congress($,passes law) |
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de-alignment?
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no asssociation of favoring one party or another
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Why 2 party system?
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1.single-member districts- win or lose
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Why 2 party system?
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2.federal and state election laws
- smaller parties dont get elected-popularity-no representation |
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Why 2 party system?
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3. parties try to to accomadate "factions" before they split off
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