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| a organization that seeks political power by electing people to office so that its positions and philosophy become public policy |
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| type of ballot that encourages party-line voting by listing all of a party's candidates in a column under the party name |
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| ballot on which all candidates are listed under the office for which they are running, making split-ticket voting easier |
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| A local or judicial election in which candidates are not selected or endorsed by political parties and party affliation is not listed on ballots |
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the dispensing of govt. jobs to persons who belong to the winning political party |
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| money raised in unlimited amounts by political parties for party building purposes. Now largely illegal except for limited contributions to state or local parties for boter registration and get-out-the-vote efforts |
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political contributions give tto a party, candidate, or interest group athat are limited in amount and fully disclosed. Raised such limited funds is harder than raising unlimited funds, hence the term "hard money" |
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| the supreme court has ruled that individuals, groups, and parties can spend unlimited amounts in campaigns for or against candidates as long as they operate independently from the candidates. When an individual group, or party does so |
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| period at the beginning of a new president's term during that which the president enjoys generally positive relations iwth the press and Congress, usually lasing about 6 months |
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| a meeting of local party memebers to choose party officials candidates for public office and to decide the platform |
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| a meeting of party delegates to vote on matters of policy and in some cases to select party candidates for public office |
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| election in which voters choose pary nominees |
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| primary election in which any voter, regardless of party, may vote |
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voting by a member of one party for a candidate of another party |
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| Primary election in which only persons registered in the party holding the primary may vote |
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| Proportional Representation |
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| an election system in which each party running recieves the proportion of legislative seats corresponding to its proportion of the vote |
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| an election system in which the candidate with the most votes wins |
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| a small political party that rises and falls with a charismatic candidate or, if composed of ideologies on the right or left, usually persists over time |
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a minor party that believes in extremely limited govt. Libertarians call for a free market system, expanded individual liberties such as drug legalization, and foreign policy of non-internvention, free trade, and open immigration |
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| a minor party dedicated to the environment, social justice, nonviolence, and a foreign policy of nonintervention |
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| A minor party founded by Ross Perot in 1995. It focuses on national govt. reform, fiscal responsibility, and plitical accountability. It has recently struggled iwth internal strife and critcism that it lacks an identity |
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an election during periods of expanded suffrage and change in the economy and society that proves to be a turning point, redefinding the agenda of politics and the alignment of voters within parties |
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theory that opposes governmental interference in economic affaris beyond what is necessary to protect life and property |
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| theory based on the principals of John Maynard Keynes, stating that govt. spending should increase during business slumps and be curbed during booms |
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| governance divided between the parties, as when one holds the presidency and the other controls one or both houses of Congress |
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National Party Convention |
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| a national meeting of delegates elected in primaries, caucuses, or state conventions who assemble once every four years to nominate candidates for president and vice president, ratify the party platform, elect officers and adopt rules |
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| interest groups organized under Section 527 of the Internal Revenue Service code may advertise for or against candidates. If their source of funding is coporations or unions, they have some restrictions on broadcast advertisting |
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| the act of declaring party affilation; required by some states when one registers to vote |
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| an informal and subjective affilations with a political party that most people acquire in childhood |
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| weaking of partisan preferences that points to a rejection of both major parties and a rise in the number of independents |
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