Exam 7: Political Parties

Members of the congressional majority party always control

What determines the composition of the party's state committees and regulates them?

Franklin Roosevelt's promise of a "new deal" for the people became the basis for making government expenditures to stimulate economic growth.

At the local level, party leaders often find it difficult to recruit candidates for local office.

In spite of the existence of many minor parties, the United States remains

When people abandon political parties to become Independents, it is called dealignment.

Party regulars would rather lose the election than compromise.

The restriction of soft money led to a surge in individual contributions.

Parties are NOT allowed to register new voters.

When one party is in charge of the presidency and the other is in charge of one or both houses of Congress, the United States is said to have divided government.

The party now known as the Democratic Party was originally led by

The supreme authority in both major parties is

The importance of political parties to the operation of local and state government varies quite a bit.

The longest persisting minor political parties usually form around

Individuals and groups are allowed to spend unlimited amounts of money to support a candidate so long as this spending is independent of the candidate or a party committee.

Open primaries permit what kind of voting?

Since 1953, united government has been in effect twice as long as dividedgovernment.

The rise of television and electronic technology and the parallel increase in the number of campaign, media, and direct-mail consultants have made parties

This method of nomination operated for several decades after the United States was established.

Turning points that define the agenda of politics and the association of voters within parties during periods of historic change in the economy and society are called