Exam 12: Political Parties

Jason is a registered Democrat who hears President Obama,a Democratic president,give a speech in favor of school voucher programs.Jason,after listening to this speech,decides that he is also in favor of school voucher programs.This new opinion is evidence of a/an ____________________.

Which best explains the rise of the Progressive Party in the 1910s?

Parties first emerged in the United States Congress as a rational response to ____________________.

A party ____________________ focuses on winning elections while a party ____________________ focuses on specific policy goals.

Compare and contrast the role of political parties in the United States Congress with the typical role of parties in the national legislatures of other advanced democracies.How do differences in the ways that candidates seek office translate into differences in the strength of party leadership and the degree of party loyalty found in legislatures?

What is the primary role of a party as an organization?

A bill passes the House by a vote of 230-205,with all Democrats voting in favor and all Republicans voting against.This is an example of ____________________.

Which party activity most clearly resolves a coordination problem for members of the party in the mass electorate?

Why did political machines put a great deal of effort into obtaining citizenship for new immigrants?

Duverger's Law predicts that single-member,plurality electoral systems are associated with the presence of ____________________ principal political party/parties.

Why did the South remain solidly Democratic during the third party system?

What is the New Deal Coalition? Why and how did it emerge? What groups were included in it? To what extent has it survived over time? In what ways does the New Deal Coalition still structure and influence American national politics?

What was the change brought about by the introduction of primary elections?

The political parties have become more reliant on ____________________ organization(s)and less reliant on ____________________ organization(s)in the last forty years.

To the extent that citizens' party identifications are markers of individuals' judgments about the quality of various parties' performance in office,party identification is best understood as a/an ____________________.

Why is a party comprised of all elected officials not possible in a society with open,fair elections?

Which of the following is a psychological attachment or loyalty to a political party?

The Whig Party was replaced by the ____________________ Party as the major competitor to the Democratic Party during the Third Party System.

Derek,Amanda,and Greg are running for the Senate as members of the Democratic party.Greg and Derek are similar in their policy standpoints,but Amanda holds more extreme preferences.Greg wins the primary,but Amanda chooses to run in the general election regardless.What effect is this likely to have on the results of the general election?

How can party leaders in Congress limit the occurrence of cycling?