Chapter 10 - Parties Flashcards
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Political parties
Political organizations that seek to influence policy they will typically get candidates elected or appointed to public office
Party system
Patterns of party politics categorized by relevant parties in a government
Interest group
Organizations that make demands in the political system on behalf of their constituents and members/Bribing, influence, Boomerang effect
Civil Society
The set of organizations in civic life outside the state through with citizens can have interest groups and volunteer organizations
Interest articulation
The process by which political actors express their demand means in a political system often through interest groups
Interest aggregation
The process by which individual preferences are brought together to make collective decision I’ve been through political parties in the party system
Elite parties
Political parties which are largely restrictive mostly used an authoritarian countries
Mass parties
Consisting of large numbers of citizens as members that undertake massive political mobilization This encourages mass Participation
Catch all parties
Parties that are flexible on that idea logical positions and into a truck support from a broad range of interests groups in voters
Dominant party system
System in which a party contains one large political party that dominates politically often controlling the legislative and executive branches
Single party system
An authoritarian system in which parties besides the single dominant party are banned in disallowed
Two party system
Political party system consisting of two significant parties that have a duopoly on opportunities to govern
Multiparty system
A party system consisting of more than two significant parties that have opportunities to govern
Fragmentation (party system)
Contrasting with concentration the extent to which political power in a party system is characterized by relatively large numbers of relatively small parties
Concentration of party system
Contrasting with fragmentation the extent to which political power and representation in a party system is characterized by relatively small number of relatively large parties
Effective number of parties
Designed to capture the number of meaningful parties in a party system that weighs the number of parties represented by their size
Party system institutionalizations
The degree to which a party system is stable and remain so over time measured by characteristics as persistence stability of ideologies and the degree to which they are distinct from specific individual that lead them
Pluralism
System of interest group Representation in which groups compete openly to influence government decisions and public policy ended which specific groups to not have official preferential Access to decision-making
Corporatism
A system of interest group representation in which certain major groups are officially designated as representatives of certain interests and have more structured interaction with the government in power and with the state administration
Peak organization
Top association such as labor federation’s in large business organizations that represent common interest by bringing together many like-minded organizations
Median voter
The voter who is theoretically exactly in the middle of the distribution of voters
Strategic voting
Practice of voting in a way that does not reflect once I do your preference in order to prevent electoral outcomes when things are were such as voting for second best candidate
Collective action
Pursuit of political or social goals by members of a group
