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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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.linkage institution .parties pick candidates .parties run campaigns .parties give cues to voters .parties articulate policies .parties coordinate policymaking |
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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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a citizen's self-proclaimed preference for one party or the other |
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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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people that work for the party |
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.Party Machines .Patronage .Urban Parties .County Organizations |
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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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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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.have partially filled the void |
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key spokesperson for political parties |
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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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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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an inducement of jobs and finacial reuros given for political reasons by party machines |
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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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political parties are so week |
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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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