POLY SCI CHAP 13
Terms
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- closed primary
- primary election in which only registered party members may vote
- Governing
- Activities directed toward cotrolling the distribution of political resources by providing executive legislative leadership, enacting agendas, mobilizing support, and building coalitions
- realignment
- substantial and long term shift in party allegiance by individuals adn groups, usually resulting in change in policy direction
- Patronage
- system in which successful party candidates reward supporters with jobs or favors
- Party Machine
- Mass based party system in which parties provided services and resources to voters in exchange for votes
- Responsible Party Model
- party government when four conditions are met clear choice of ideologies;candidates pledged to impletment ideas;party held accountable by boters; party control over members
- Nominating convention
- Formal party gathering to choose candidates
- Party Base
- Members of a political party who consistently vote for that partys candidates
- Party Platform
- List of policy positions a party endorses and pledges its elected officals to enact
- Party-in-the electorate
- ordinary citizens who identity with the party
- open primary
- primary election in which eligible voters do not need to be registered party members
- Party Discipline
- Ability of party leaders to bring party members in teh legislature into line with the party program
- Splinter Party
- A third party that breaks off from one of the major political parties
- Party Identification
- Voter affiliation witha political party
- Party Era
- extended period of relative political stability in which one party tends to control both the presidency and the congress
- Party Boss
- Party leader, usually in an urban district who excercised tight control over electioneering and patronage
- Electioneering
- The process of getting a person elected to public office
- Party Activists
- The party faithful; the rank and file members who actually carry out the parts electioneerings efforts
- Critical Election
- An election signaling the significant change in popular allegiance from one party to another
- Party In goverment
- Members of the party who have been elected to serve in government
- Party Primary
- Nomination of party candidates by registered party members rather than party bosses