Chapter 11: Political Parties and Political Action (Barron's)
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American Government vocabulary
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AP Government, Shaw's AP Government Exam Review, noobcakes
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Terms | Definitions |
|---|---|
 Democratic Party | Political Party that evolved from the original Democratic - Republican Party. It is one of the two major political parties. |
| Divided Government | Characterized by political gridlock as the result of different political parties having control of different branches of the government. |
| Linkage Institution | The means by which individuals can express preferences regarding the devlopment of public policy. |
| McGovern-Frasier Commission | Commission that brought significant representation changes to the Democratic Party. It made future conventions more democratic by including more minority representation. |
| National Committee | The governing body of a political party made up of state and national party leaders. |
| National Nominating Conventions | The governing authorities of the political party. They give direction to the national party chairperson, the spokesperson of the party, and the person who heads the national committee the governing body of the party. There are also forums where presidential candidates are given the official nod by their parties. |
| New Democrat | A term created by the Democratic Leadership Council in 1992; it denotes a less liberal, centrist democrat. |
| Party dealignment | A shift away from the major political parties to a more neutral, independent ideological view of party identification. |
| Party Era | A time period characterized by national dominance by one political party. There have been four major party eras - the era of good feeling, the Republican era following the Civil War, the Democratic era following the election of Franklin Roosevelt, and the Republican era following Richard Nixon. |
| Party Identification | The Manner in which a person acts when belonging to a political party. |
| Party Machine | The party organization that exists on the local level and uses patronage as the means to keep the party members in line. Boss Tweed and Tammany Hall are examples. |
| Party platforms | Voted on by the delegates attending the National Convention, they represent the ideological point of view of a political party. |
| Party Realignment | The movment of voters from one political party to another resulting in a major shift in the political spectrum (characterized by the start of a party era) |
| Political Participation | The different ways an average citizen gets involved in the political process ranging from conventional means of influencing government to more radical unconventional tools that have influenced our elected officials. |
| Political Party | A group of people joined together by common philosophies and common approaches with the aim of getting candidates elected in order to develop and implement public policy. It is characterized by an organization that is responsible to the electorate and has a role in government. |
| Political Socialization | The factors that determine voting behavior such as family, religion, and ethnic background. |
| Reagan Democrats | Traditional Democratic middle-class voters turning to Ronald Reagan during the 1980s. |
| Reform Party | A western-based political party that grew out of a coalition of discontented western interest groups in 1986. |
| Religious Right | an evengelical conglomeration of ultraconservative political activists, many of whom support the Republican party |
| Republican Party | Political Party that evolved from the Whig party, coming to power after Lincoln's election, it is one of the two current major political parties. |
| Super delegates | Democratic party leaders and elected party officials who automatically are selected as delegates to the National convention. |
| Third Political Parties | Political parties that can be described as ideological, signle-issued oriented, economically motivated, and personality driven. Examples include the Free Soil Party, Know-Nothings, Populists, and Bull Moose Parties. In 1996 Ross Perot created a new national third party called the Reform Party. |
| Two-Party System | Two political controlling representation in the government. In the united States, the Democrats and Republicans have dominated elections because of the "winner-take-all" electoral system. |
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