Chapter 11.1

duverger's law claims that single-member-district / winner-take-all elections favor______ systems.

Two-party

How does the winner-take-all method affect how american political parties approach elections?

Appeals to broad range of voters.

ever since the _______, the republican party and democratic party have been the dominant parties in the united states.

Civil war.

Group the descriptions with the appropriate political party.

EARLY DEMOCRATIC PARTY: -Andrew jackson's party - opposed a national bank - Supported westward expansion. WHIG PARTY: - Briefly Known as National republicans - Advocated economic (industrial) development

in all democracies, political parties seek power over government. How do they achieve this?

Getting members elected to office

group the descriptions with the correct american president.

JOHN ADAMS: - Federalist - 2nd president (1796) THOMAS JEFFERSON: - Democratic-republican - 3rd president.

Pair the descriptions with the party-related terms.

Major Party: Frequently wins elections and typically wins a majority or considerable minority of seats. Minor party: Rarely if ever wins elections and never wins more than a small minority of seats Minority party: Controls less than half of the seats in a legislative body Majority party: Controls more than half of the seats in a legislative body.

sort out the descriptions of political parties and interest groups.

POLITICAL PARTIES: - get members elected to office. - influence government from the inside INTEREST GROUPS: - Narrower set of goals - Advance a common cause shared by members - Influence government from the outside.

what is the document that expresses a political party's principles goals, and policy position on domestic and foreign affairs?

Party platform

Group the descriptions with the correct political party

REPBULICAN PARTY: - also called the Grand Old Party (GOP). - Associated with the color red - ideologically right and conservative - Uses an elephant as its symbol DEMOCRATIC PARTY: - Ideologically to the left and liberal - Associated with the color blue - Uses a donkey as its symbol

the system that emerged from the splitting of the jeffersonian republicans is known a the_______ party system.

Second

what led to the rise of the republican party?

Tensions between the north and the south over slavery prior to the civil war.

what political party system is used in the United states?

Two-party system.

which method is used to choose U.S house of representatives?

Winner take all

Pair each political party function with its definition.

- Electoral mobilization: Getting people motivated and excited to get to the polls to vote. - Issue structuring: Prioritising issues so that attention is focused on a digestible set of problems. - Social representation: Bidding for various social groups' votes, allowing them to represent to represent different sections of society - Interest aggregation: Bringing multiple interest and stakeholders together under a single organizational framework. - Social integration: Giving the citizens of democracies the ability to engage in the democratic process and a vested interest in the continuance of democratic governance.

which of the following include accurate descriptions of proportional representation (PR)?

- Parties choose candidates to fill seats - Citizens vote for parties, not candidates - Dominant system in most industrial democracies

why have political parties become integral to the operations of American legislatures?

- Parties provide discipline - Parties provide organization - The legislative process is very complex.

Which of the following were the first political parties in the United States?

- federalists - Democratic-Republicans

How did the democratic party run itself during his period?

- rewarding supporters with jobs in government - Having a political machines that secured votes for candidates.

what essential functions for democracy do political parties provide?

- social integration - Issue structuring - electoral mobilization - candidate nomination - societal representation - interest aggregation - forming and sustaining majority governing coalition

an organization that secures votes for a party's candidates in exchage for political favors such as jobs in government is called a political_________.

Machine

Group the descriptions with the appropriate election method.

PROPORTIONAL REPRESENTATION: - most common method in most industrial democracies - can gain seats without winning majority of votes - Parties pick the person who fills the seat. WINNER TAKE ALL: - Must win elections outright to get power - voter choose a candidate from a party - Used in the United states

Giving important supporters of a political party jobs in government is called a ______ system.

spoils.