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A political party’s _______________________ is a statement of principles and objectives espoused by a party of a candidate that is used during a campaign to win support from voters
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Platform
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The formal __________________________refers to the party professionals who run the party at the national, state and local levels.
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Party Organization
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________________________is the political outlook which springs from a desire to conserve existing things, held to be either good in themselves, are at lest safe, familiar, and be objects of trust and affection.
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Conservatism
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Originally __________________________ws a political doctrine that expoused freedom of the individual from interference by the state, toleration by the state in matters of morality and religion, laissez-faire economic policies and a belief in natural rights.
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liberalism
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The term ____________________ refers to southern democrats in the US house of representatives who support conservative policies.
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Boll weevils
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President _______________________________changed the philosophical positions of the democratic party which enabled president Franklin Roosevelt to implement the New Deal legislation to address the hardships caused by the Great Depression.
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Woodrow Wilson
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In the 1840’s, a national third party movement known as the ______________________ advocated strong anti-immigrants policies and the prohibiting Catholics and any foreign-born residents of the United Sates from holding public office.
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Know-nothing party
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Mario Compean and Jose Angel Gutierrez are the founding fathers of the ____________________
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LaRaza Unida party
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Formed in 1891, the ________________________was the nation’s most viable third party movement
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Populist party
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In 1972, ________________________ran for governor as a candidate of the LaRaza Unida Party.
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Ramsey Muniz
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An _____________________________is a comprehensive system of political beliefs about the nature of people and society
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Ideology
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The _________________________underscore that in every organization, whether it be a political party, a professional union, or any other association, the aristocratic tendency manifest itself very clearly.
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Iron law of oligarchy
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A ___________________is a political group or clique that functions within a larger group, such as a government, party or organization.
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Faction
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A _________________________________is an organization whose members are sufficiently homogeneous to band together for the overt purpose of winning elections which entitles them to exercise government power, in order to enjoy the influence, prerequisites, and advantages of authority
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Political party
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The Texas democratic party uses an unique approach called the ________________ to select delegates to the party’s presidential delegates to the national convention.
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Texas Two-step
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________________________________is based on support for traditional western Judeo-Christian values not just as a matter of comfort and faith, but out of a film belief that the secular, the economic, and the political success of the western world is rooted in this value.
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Cultural conservatism
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A _________________ is an individual or political group advocating a moderate approach to political decision making and to the solution of social problems.
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Centrist
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______________________is defined as the political, economic and social concept that places primary emphasis on the worth, freedom and well-being of the individual rather than on the group, society or nation.
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Individualism
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A __________________________ is a temporary political party that often arises during a presidential election year to affect the fortunes of the two major parties.
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Third party
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The political agenda of the ________________________ focused on making more money available for the growing middle class and the poor.
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Green backs
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Technically, the party of our power is known as the ______________________
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Loyal Opposition
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