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| an organization that recruits, nominates, and elects party members in office in order to control the government |
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| the formal statement of a party's principles and policy objectives |
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| political scientists' view that a function of a party is to offer a clear choice to voters by establishing priorities or polict stances different from those of rival parties |
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| individuals who identify with or tend to support a party |
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| individuals who identify themselves as a member of one party or the other |
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| often used as a synonym for an unaffiliated voter |
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| between 1929 and 1939, a time of devastating economic collapse and personal misery for people around the world |
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| the formal party apparatus, including committees, party leaders, conventions, and workers |
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| a role that the party out of power plays, highlighting its objections to policies and priorities of the government in power |
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| Supreme Court interpretation of campaign finance law that enabled political parties to raise unlimited funds for party-building activities such as voter registration drives and get-out-the-vote (GOTV) efforts |
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| the partisan identifications of elected leaders in local, county, state, and federal government |
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| the situation that exists when Congress is controlled by one party and the presidency by the other |
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| the categorization of the number and competitiveness of political parties in a polity |
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| a shift in party allegiances or electoral support |
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| a philosophy supporting the rights and empowerment of the masses as opposed to elites |
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| the practice of rewarding political supporters with jobs |
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| big-city organizations that exerted control over many aspects of life and lavishly rewarded supporters |
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| system in which a party leader rewarded political supporters with jobs or government contracts in exchange for their support of the party |
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| Franklin Roosevelt's broad social welfare program in which the government would bear the responsibility of providing a "safety net" to protect the weakest members of society |
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| the group composed of southern Democrats, northern city dwellers, immigrants, the poor, Catholics, labor union members, blue-collar workers, African Americans, and women that elected FDR to the presidency four times |
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| the situation in which fewer voters support the two major political parties, instead identifying themselves as independent, or splitting their ticket between candidates from more than one party |
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| the situation in which voters vote for candidates from more than one party |
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| organizations that candidates form to support their individual election |
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| Proportional Representation System |
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| an electoral structure in which political parties win the number of parliamentary seats equal to the percentage of the vote the party recieves |
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| an election in which voters choose the party's candidates who will run in the later general election |
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| Candidate-Centered Campaign |
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| a campaign in which an individual seeking election, rather than an entire party slate, is the focus |
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| one-sided action, usually in foreign policy |
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