Political Parties - Unit 4

Question 1

What is a political party?

Answer 1

A political party is an organized group of leaders, office holders, and voters who work together to elect candidates to political office.

Question 2

What is party identification?

Answer 2

Party identification is the degree to which a voter is connected and influenced by a particular political party

Question 3

What is straight ticket voting?

Answer 3

Straight ticket voting is voting for all of the candidates on the ballot from one political party.

Question 4

What is Split Ticket voting?

Answer 4

Split ticket voting is voting for candidates from different parties in the same election.

Question 5

What is a Party Platform?

Answer 5

A party platform is a set of positions and policy objectives that members of a party agree to. (Base of party)

Question 6

What is Recruitment?

Answer 6

Recruitment is the process through which political parties identify potential candidates

Question 7

What is Party coalition?

Answer 7

A Party Coalition is a group of voters who support a party over time.

Question 8

What is Realignment?

Answer 8

Realignment is when groups that support one party shift their allegiance to a different political party.

Question 9

What is a Critical Election?

Answer 9

A critical election is a major national election that signals a change in the balance of power between the two parties.

Question 10

What is a Party Era?

Answer 10

A party era is a time when one party wins most national elections

Question 11

What is an Era of divided government?

Answer 11

An era of divided government is a trend since 1969 in which one party controls one of both houses of congress and the president is from the opposing party.

Question 12

What is a nomination?

Answer 12

A nomination is the formal process through which parties choose their candidate to run for office.

Question 13

What is a Primary Election?

Answer 13

A primary election is an election in which state’s voters choose delegates who support a presidential candidate for nomination or election by a plurality vote to select a party’s nominee for a seat in congress

Question 14

What is an Open Election?

Answer 14

An election where all eligible voters may vote regardless of their party affiliations.

Question 15

What is a CLosed Election?

Answer 15

An election where only those who have registered as a member of a political party may vote

Question 16

What the purpose of a Party Caucus?

Answer 16

The purpose of a party caucus is to select a nominee.

Question 17

How does a Party Caucus work?

Answer 17

Voters meet up to select delegates and discuss their preferences in the nomination process.

Question 18

What is the difference between a Primary and a Caucus?

Answer 18

A primary is financed by the government and they have to abide by state laws and caucus’s are more flexible?

Question 19

What is Frontloading?

Answer 19

Front loading is when a state decides to push its primary or caucus to a date as early as possible in election season to gain more influence in the presidential nomination process.

Question 20

What is a Two Party System?

Answer 20

A two party system in which two political parties dominate politics, winning all elections.

Question 21

What does coalition building do?

Answer 21

Coalition building brings together different groups to achieve a common goal.

Question 22

What is Gerrymandering?

Answer 22

the drawing of electoral district boundaries with the intent of creating undue advantage for a party.

Question 23

What is a single-member plurality system?

Answer 23

an election system for choosing members of the legislature where the winner is the candidate who receives the most votes, even if the candidate does not receive a majority of the votes.

Question 24

What is an interest group?

Answer 24

Interest Groups- collection of people who share some common interest or attitude and seek to influence government for specific ends.