Chapter 9(inquizitive) Political Partiez

What happens during an electoral realignment?

A new party

Which of the following is an example of external mobilization?

Aspiring politicians creating Party organizations

Why can it be difficult to find quality candidates to run for office?

Candidates expect to have their lives scrutinized during a campaign. Party leaders are rarely willing to offer monetary support unless a candidate can raise some funds on his or her own. Even running for a lower office requires raising large sums of money.

Drag the party name over to the groups to which they traditionally appeal. Democrats and republicans

Democrats: racial minorities and organized labor Republicans: religious and social conservatives, businesses

Which of the following statements are true regarding political independents?

Each independent voter tends to support one party more than the other. Roughly two-fifths of the electorate identifies as independent.

To prevent having multiple candidates from the same party confusing voters in a general election, political parties take which of the following actions?

Hold nomination races

How do parties influence the committee system?

Membership depends on the percentage of seats held by the party. Transfer from one committee to another requires party authorization.

The state with the highest turnout in presidential primaries is usually -. The state with the highest turnout in presidential caucuses is usually -.

New Hampshire, Iowa

What does Donald Trump's victory in the 2016 presidential election suggest about the power political parties have over their candidates and fellow party members?

Party leaders are limited in their abilities to choose and control their nominees

Which of the following statements about political party platforms are correct?

Party platforms represent compromises by the various groups in the party. Party platforms represent the image the party wants to cultivate for itself.

Traditionally, - were the leaders in voter registration activity. More recently, - have taken a more active role.

Political parties, civic groups

From the 1950s until the early 2000s, which party was more successful at using the presidency for party building and mobilizing its base to win elections?

Republican

Match the ideology with the parth

Republican- conservative Democrat-liberal

Under the law, 527 committees can raise and spend unlimited amounts of money, as long as which of the following provisions are met?

The 527's activities are not coordinated with the formal party organization. The goal of the spending is to increase voter turnout.

Put these major moments in the history of American political parties in order from earliest to latest.

The Federalists represent New England merchants and argue for protective tariffs. The Democrats and Whigs become the two major political parties. The Republican Party comes into existence. The New Deal realignment leaves the Democratic Party dominant for several decades.

Why are third parties often short-lived?

The major parties absorb their programs and their popular ideas.

Why do party activists tend to devote their time to politics?

They have strong beliefs

National conventions no longer spend much time on debating the selection of the presidential nominee for their party.

True

What is the key feature that makes American political parties different from interest groups?

Try to control the government by winning elections

What do we call the meetings where political or legislative groups get together to select candidates, plan strategy, and make decisions regarding legislation?

caucus

Which of the following are examples of patronage that political party organizations used during the party machine era?

distributing food to supporters offering a garbage collector job to a supporter helping immigrants process citizenship paperwork

In the 1960s, Ralph Nader came to fame as a person crusading for the mandatory inclusion of seat belts in automobiles. In part because of his work, the idea of seat belts being a requirement became part of the policy agenda. This is an example of Ralph Nader being a policy - .

entrepreneur

Donald Trump's nomination shows how party elites still control the nominating process even with primaries and caucuses.

false

The Democrats and Republicans have grown more similar in terms of their policy positions over the last fifty years.

false

The Whig Party emerged from the - Party in the second-party system. By the end of the third-party system, the Whigs had largely been subsumed by the - Party.

federalist, republican

What is the current state of party discipline in Congress?

it is stronger today than it used to be

Within each demographic group (gender, age, race, and income) in the following chart, identify which members of the group tend to have the greatest proportion of support for the Republican Party.

males, 65 or over, 75k and over

After the decline of party machines, state and local party organizers have become active in which of the following ways? Correct Answer(s) recruiting candidates voter registration drives spending money on "party-building" activities

recruiting candidates; voter registration drives; spending money on "party building" activities

Which two groups did the Republican Party add to its coalition during the 1980s?

religious conservatives working-class whites

The transfer of national - money to state and local organizations has led to - differences between state and national parties.

soft, fewer

The "New Deal" Coalition that developed in the 1930s system was eventually undone by conflicts over which of the following issues?

the Vietnam War civil rights

Which group is responsible for changes to a national political party's rules on voting practices, such as the 1972 change in rules that called for the use of proportional representation voting system in the Democratic National Convention?

the national party itself

Why do voters often support minor-party candidates?

to show disapproval of the major parties to support the candidates' positions