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| Pattern of beliefs about the role of government |
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| Use of government to bring social justice and equal opportunity |
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| Use of government to ensure order, personal accountability, and free market |
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| Government based on public ownership of production |
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| Individual liberty, limited government, slight similarity to anarch |
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| Group favoring government action to uphold traditional morals and beliefs |
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| attitudes, beliefs, and sentiments that provide underlying assumptions and rules that govern behavior in politics |
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| More than half the votes leads to a decision. |
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| Government under consent of the governed |
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| Economic system favoring private ownership and investments, free market |
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| Process in which political culture is transmitted in a society |
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| Trends between certain populations |
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| Difference between the political stances between men and women |
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| Division of population based on income and education |
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| The net worth of economic activity in a nation |
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| An organization standing by a certain platform of political beliefs with the purpose of electing a president with said beliefs |
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| Election with no political parties |
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| Favoring a political party |
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| Money donated to a political party leaving contribution unregulated |
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| Money donated to political party that is limited |
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| Early time into a president's term characterized by good relations with the press and Congress |
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| Meeting of party members to choose candidates for office |
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| Residents of Iowa elect candidates for county matters |
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| Meeting of party delegates to vote on political platform |
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| Presidential National Nominating Convention |
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| Convention held every four years by political parties with presidential candidates |
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| Primary where any registered voter is able to vote |
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| Party's candidates for office are directly voted by the people |
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| Elected official who attends nominating convention, may have a bias toward political party |
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| Primary where registered voters of a specific party can vote |
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| Primary where voters may pick candidates without reference to party |
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| Beginning of process of choosing Republican and Democratic nominees. |
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| Max effort early on in commissions |
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| Voting for the opposite party |
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| System consisting of two major parties |
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| Multiple political parties have opportunity to control offices |
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| Candidate with most votes win |
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| Alliance of a specific demographic. Normally temporary |
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| Support of a cause or charity |
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| District that returns one officeholder to a body with multiple members |
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| List of actions a party supports to appeal to the public |
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| Proportional Representation |
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| Representing all parties in proportion to amount of votes attained |
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| excess of votes by the leading candidate |
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| More liberal of the two U.S major parties |
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| More Conservative of the two U.S major parties |
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| Minor party believing in extremely limited government |
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| Focused on environment and nonviolence |
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| National reform, political accountability |
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| Election where change in society is the turning point |
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| Period of time where there is one dominant party |
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| Dramatic change in political system |
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| One party controls White House, the other controls Congress |
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| Movement toward nonpartisanship |
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| Relating to local people and society |
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| No specific political party |
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| Not all votes cast for candidates of the same party |
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| Voting for every candidate a party has |
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| McGovern-Fraser Commission |
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| Created in response to demands for reform by minority groups |
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