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| 5234789680 | Candidate-Centered politics | politics that focuses on the candidates, their particular issues, and character rather than party affiliation. | 0 | |
| 5234789681 | Critical Election | an election that signals a party realignment through voter polarization around new issues and personalities. | 1 | |
| 5234790469 | Dealignment | a general decline in party identification and loyalty in the electorate. | 2 | |
| 5234790470 | National Convention | party meeting held in the presidential election year for the purpose of nominating a presidential and vice presidential ticket and adopting a platform. | 3 | |
| 5234791388 | National party platform | a statement of the general and specific philosophy and policy goals of a political party, usually promulgated at the national convention. | 4 | |
| 5234791389 | Party identification | a citizens personal affinity for a political party, usually expressed by a tendency to vote for the candidates of that party. | 5 | |
| 5234792427 | party realignment | dramatic shifts in partisan preferences that drastically alter the political landscape. | 6 | |
| 5234793618 | political (party) machine | a party organization that recruits voter loyalty with tangible incentives and is characterized by a high degree of control over member activity. | 7 | |
| 5234793619 | political party | an organized effort by office holders, candidates, activists, and voters to pursue their common interests by gaining and exercising power through the electoral process. | 8 | |
| 5234794189 | proportional representation | a voting system that apportions legislative seats according to the percentage of the vote won by a particular political party. | 9 | |
| 5234794933 | secular realignment | the gradual rearrangement of party coalitions, based more on demographic shifts than on shocks to the political system. | 10 | |
| 5234796932 | superdelegates | delegate to the Democratic Party's national convention that is reserved for a party official and whose vote at the convention is unpledged to a candidate. | 11 | |
| 5234796933 | think tank | institutional collection of policy-orientated researchers and academics who are sources of policy ideas. | 12 | |
| 5234800158 | winner-take-all system | an electoral system in which the party that receives at least one more vote than any other party wins the election. | 13 |
