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| A group that seeks to elect candidates to public office by supplying them with a label. |
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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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| The political party founded and led by Thomas Jefferson. |
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| The political party founded and led by Thomas Jefferson. |
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| The political party founded and led by Thomas Jefferson. |
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| The political party founded by Alexander Hamilton. |
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| The arrangement of political parties initiated by Andrew Jackson. |
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| A name for party professionals, as opposed to volunteers. |
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| A mane for party volunteers who later come to form their own reform movement. |
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| An election in which candidates for office are not identified by party labels. |
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| A party that stresses national organization to raise $$ and give assistance to local candidates and party units. |
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| An election in which citizens directly approve or disapprove legislation proposed by the gov't. |
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| Critical (or realigning) period |
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| Features a sharp, lasting shift in the popular coalition supporting one or both parties. |
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| An election in which citizens can place on the legislative agenda proposals by nongovernment groups. |
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| Elected officials who serve as delegates to the national convention. |
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| An electoral systemthat gives the only office to the candidate with the largest vote total, rather than appointing numerous offices by the prcentage of the total vote. |
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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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| A closed meeting of party leaders to select party candidates. |
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| Parties that value principle above all else |
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| Parties organized around sociability, rather than tangible rewards or ideology. |
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| Party units established or maintained by outside groups. |
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| The practice of voting for one major party's candidate in state or local elections and the other's at the national level |
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| Proportional representation |
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| An electoral system that distributes numerous seats to parties on the basis of their percentageof the popular vote. |
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| Parties formed by a split within one of the major parties. |
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| a ballot listing all candidates of a given party together under the name of that party. |
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| Congressional campaign committee |
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| A committee in each party to help elect or relect members. |
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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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| Delegates from each state who manage party affairs between conventions. |
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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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| An electoral system with two dominant parties that compete in state and national elections. |
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| A ballot listing all candidates for a given office under the name of that office. |
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| An electoral system in which the winner gets the most votes but not necessarily the majority of the votes. |
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| A party organization hat recruits members by dispensing patronage. |
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| The social rewards that lead people to join political organizations. |
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