Exam 11: Parties

Because U.S.parties are weakly organized and decentralized-in effect, every congressional district and state has its own parties, little related to each other-the parties do not cohere well at the __________ level.

Parties assuage conflicts between interest groups through __________-in other words, pulling together their separate interests into a larger organization.

In parliamentary systems, the majority party must resign when constituents submit a vote of non-confidence in the party.

By welcoming new groups into their ranks, parties __________.

The parties in Sweden's Riksdag maintain a right-leaning ideological bent.

If Republicans start worrying that Libertarian candidates are taking some of their votes, the Libertarians will become __________.

What did the 2012 U.S.presidential election demonstrate about party cohesion?

British parties select candidates by bargaining between national headquarters and local constituency organizations.This system is __________ the party list system in Israel.

In Israel's candidate selection system, each party draws up a __________ of 120 nominees to the Knesset (parliament) and voters choose a single list.

Stable, moderate party systems made democracy possible in which former totalitarian nations?

U.S.parties are weakly organized and decentralized, and thus, the parties do not __________ well at the national level.

Britain's party system led to a(n) "__________ parliament" and shaky government following the 2010 elections.

Roosevelt's Democratic coalition consisted of which three disparate interest groups?

Poland's exceedingly fragmented multiparty system has recently formed into a __________ one.

Ideologically, Communists are considered a(n) __________ party.

The American electoral system is based on the British "first past the post" (FPTP) system, named so because __________.

Evaluate the effect of 1980s Republican Party cohesion on the Democratic Party.

Right-wing parties, such as the British Conservatives under Thatcher, want to __________.

What did the Moderate Party do to acquire a majority in the Swedish Riksdag (parliament)?