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| ballot in which all candidates are listed under their party designations, making it easy for voters to cast votes for all the candidates of one party |
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| ballot in which all candidates are listed under the office for which they are runnin |
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| a local or judicial election in which party affiliation is not listed on ballots |
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| the dispensing of governmnet jobs to person who belong to the winning political party |
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| money contributed for party-building purposed that does not have to be disclosed under federal law |
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| a period at the beginning of a new president's term in which the president enjoys generally positive relations with the press and Congress, usually lasting about six months |
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| a meeting of local party members to choose party officials and/or candidates for public office and to decide the platform |
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| a meeting of part delegates to pass on matters of policy and in some cases to select party candidates for public office |
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| election open to all members of the party in which voters choose the persons who will be the party's nominees in the general election |
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| a primary in which any voter, regardless of party, may vote |
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| a memeber of one party voting for a candidate of another party |
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| a primary 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 receives 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 idologies on the right or left, usually persists over time; also called a third party |
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| an election during periods of historic change in the economy and society that proves to be a turning point, redefining the agenda of politics and the alignment of voters within parties |
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| doctrine opposing governmental interferance in economic affairs beyond what is necessary to protect life and property |
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| economic principles based on the prinicples advocated by John Maynard Keynes; increasing government spending during business slumps and curbing spending during booms |
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| governance divided between the parties, expecailly when on controls the White House and the other controls Congress |
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| an organization that seeks political power by electing people to office so that its positions and philosophy become public policy |
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| national party convention |
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| the national meeting of delegates elected in primaries, caususes, 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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| the act of declaring party affiliation; required by some states when one registers to vote |
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| an informal and subjective affiliations with a political party that most people acquire in childhood |
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| change in the compostition of the electorate or its partisan preferances that points to a rejection of both major parties and a rise in the number of independants |
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