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| a meeting of the members of a political party to choose people to represent them in a larger meeting, election etc. | ||
| A party committee in Congress that provides money to members as well as potential members. | ||
| Elected by the national committee, he/she is a day-to-day party manager. | ||
| Delegates who run party affairs between national conventions. | ||
| A meeting of party delegates held every four years (around a presidential election). | ||
| A major lasting shift occurs in the popular coalition supporting one or both parties. An example is the election of 1860 in which the democrats split into two parties over the issue of slavery. | ||
| The declared policy of a political party or group. | ||
| Electoral system in which the winner is the person who gets the most votes even if he or she doesn't receive a majority; used in almost all American elections. | ||
| A logical way of thinking about how politics and government should be carried out. | ||
| A party organization that recruits members by using incentives such as money and political jobs. | ||
| A group that seeks to elect candidates to public office. | ||
| Election that is held in order to choose candidates for office. | ||
| A split ticket is where someone votes for candidates of different parties for different offices in the same election. A straight ticket is where someone votes for candidates who are all in the same party. | ||
| Party leaders and elected official who become delegates to the national convention without having to run in primaries or caucuses. | ||
| Electoral system with two dominant parties that compete in national elections. In the U.S. they are the Republicans and Democrats. | ||
| a group of people who join together to try to influence the government in order to protect their own particular rights, advantages etc. | ||
| Some who tries to persuade the government or someone with political power that a law or situation should be changed. | ||
| A committee set up by a labor union, interest group, or corporation that raises and spend campaign money from voluntary donations. | ||
| A signal telling a legislator what values are at stake in an issue (who's for and who's against a proposal) and how that issue fits into his/her own set of political beliefs. | ||
| a branch of law that often utilizes class-action suits to protect the interest of a large group or of the public at large, as in matters relating to racial discrimination, air pollution, etc. An example is the ACLU. | ||
| Assessments of a representative's voting record on issues important to an interest group. | ||
| The hiring of former government employees by private companies with which they had dealings when they worked for the government. | ||
| Public interest organizations that do research on policy questions and spread their findings in articles, books etc., and occasionally testimony before Congress. Examples are Children's Defense Fund and American Enterprise Institute. | ||
| Made it illegal for federal civil service employees to take an active part in political management or political campaigns by serving as party officers, soliciting campaign funds, running for partisan office, working in a partisan campaign, endorsing partisan candidates, taking voters to the polls, counting ballots, circulating nominating petitions, or being delegates to a party convention. Gradually took federal employees out of machine politics. |
