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| an organization that seeks political power by electing people to office so that its positions and philosophy become public policy | ||
| an election in which candidates are not selected or endorsed by political parties and party affilliation is not listed one ballots | ||
| the dispensing of government jobs to persons who belong to the winning political party | ||
| the period at the beginning of a new president's term during which the president enjoys generally positive relations with the press and Congress, usually lasting about six months | ||
| a meeting of local party members to choose party official or candidates for public offic and to decide the platform | ||
| a meeting of party delegates to vote on matters of policy and in some cases to select party candidates for public office | ||
| an election in which voters choose party nominees | ||
| a primary election in which any voter, regardless of party, may vote | ||
| voting by a member of one party for a candidate of another party | ||
| a primary election in which only persons registered in the party holding the primary may vote | ||
| a small political party that persists over time, is often composed of ideologies on the right or left, or that is centered on a charismatic candidate | ||
| an election system in which each party running receives the proportion of legislative seats corresponding to its proportion of the vote | ||
| an election system in which the candidate with the most votes wins | ||
| an election during periods of expanded suffrage and change in the economy and society that proves to be a turning point, redefining the agenda of politics and the alignment of voters within parties | ||
| governance divided between the parties, as when one holds the presidency and the other controls one or both houses of Congress | ||
| a national meeting of delegates elected in primaries, caucuses, or state conventions who assemble once every four years to nominate candidates for president and vice president, ratify the party platofrm, elect officers, and adopt rules | ||
| the act of declaring party affiliation; required by some states when one registers to vote | ||
| an affiliation with a political party that most people acquire in childhood | ||
| weakening of partisan preferences that points to a rejection of both major parties and a rise in the number of independents | ||
| money raised in unlimited amounts by political parties for party-building purposes. Now largely illegal except for limited contributions to state or local parties for voter registration and get-out-the-vote efforts. | ||
| political contributions given to a party, candidate, or interest groups that are limited in amount and fully disclosed | ||
| concerned the efforts of one party to stack the judiciary with fellow partisans before leaving office | ||
| recruit candidates for such offices as county commissioner,sheriff, and treasurer | ||
| the official statement of party policy, that hardly anyone reads | ||
| divierting votes away from the major party candidate and costing that candidate the election |
