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Chapter 8 Political Parties
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Political Studies
12th Grade
10/24/2010

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political party
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a team of men and women seeking to control the governing apparatus by gaining office in a daily constituted election
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Parties can be thought of in 4 parts
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.party in the electoracte
.party elctorate(elgible voters)
.party as an organization
.party in government
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Tasks of the parties
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.linkage institution
.parties pick candidates
.parties run campaigns
.parties give cues to voters
.parties articulate policies
.parties coordinate policymaking
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linkage institution
Definition
the through which peopl's concerns become political issues on the government's policy agenda
.translate imputs from the public into outpu from the policy makers
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Party identification
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a citizen's self-proclaimed preference for one party or the other
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ticket-splitting
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.voting with one party for one offic and with another party for other offices
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has become the norm in American voting behavior
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ticket-splitting
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The party orgainzations
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people that work for the party
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Local Parties
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.Party Machines
.Patronage
.Urban Parties
.County Organizations
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Party Machines
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types of political pary organization that relies heavily on material on material inducements to win votes and to govern
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Patrongae
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A job, promotion or contract given for political reasons rather than merit used by party machines
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Urban Party Organizations
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.are generally weak
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County Orgaizations
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.have partially filled the void
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party-in-government
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key spokesperson for political parties
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party-in the-electorate
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.largest componet of party
.people who identify with a party
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Political parties tend to make middle-of-the-road stands on majr issues
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most of the American electorate most of the American electorate are centrist
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rational-choice theory
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the wise party selects policies that are widely favored
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recent polls compared to 1952
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say there are more independents
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Decentralized and Fragmented
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American political parties
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Patronage was
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an inducement of jobs and finacial reuros given for political reasons by party machines
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Pennsylvania
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has some of the strongest parties in America
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Since 1960 state party organizations
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have become much more powerful and organized
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California
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political parties are so week
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Open primaries
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make you choose which party you want on the exact day
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primaries that encourage party encourage party loyalty
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.closed primaries
.blanket primaries
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American nation partes are best described as
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loose aggregations of state parties
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national convention is
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supreme power
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