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| 12269096 | Political Party | A group that seeks to elect candidates to public office. | |
| 12269097 | patronage | Granting favors or giving contracts or making appointments to office in return for political support. | |
| 12269098 | Mugwumps / Progressives | Republican party faction of the 1890s to the 1910s, composed of reformers who opposed patronage. | |
| 12269099 | Realignment period | Periods when a major, lasting shift occurs in the popular coalition supporting one of both parties. | |
| 12269100 | Split ticket | Voting for candidates of different parties for various offices in the same election. | |
| 12269101 | Straight ticket | Voting for candidates who are all of the same party. | |
| 12269102 | Office-bloc ballot | A ballot listing all candidates of a given office under the name of that office; also called a "Massachusettes" ballot. | |
| 12269103 | Party-column ballot | A ballot listing all candidates of a given party together under thee name of that party; also called an "Indiana" ballot. | |
| 12269104 | National convention | A meeting of party delegates held every four years. | |
| 12269105 | National committee | Delegates who run party affairs between national conventions. | |
| 12269106 | Congressional campaign committee | A party committee in Congress that provides funds to members and whould-be members. | |
| 12269107 | National Chairman | A paid, full-time manager of a party's day-to-day work who is elected by the national committee. | |
| 12269108 | Soft money | Funds spent by parties that are not contributed directly to candidate campaigns, and which do not "expressly advocate" the election or defeat of a candidate. | |
| 12269109 | Super delegates | Party leaders and elected officials who become delegates to the national converntion whitout having to run in primaries or caucuses. | |
| 12269110 | Political machine | A party organization that recruits members by dispensing patronage. | |
| 12269111 | The Hatch Act | ...made it illegal for federal civil service employees to take an active party in political management or political campaigns by serving as party officers, soliciting campaign funds, running for partisan offfice, working in a partisan campaign, endorsing partisan candidates, taking voters to the polls, counting ballots, circulating nomination petititions, or being delegates to a party convention. | |
| 12269112 | Ideological party | A party that values principled stands on issues above all else. | |
| 12269113 | Solidary incentives | The social rewards (sense of pleasure, status, or companionship) that lead people to join political organizations. | |
| 12269114 | Sponsored party | A local or state political party that is largely supported by another organization in the community. | |
| 12269115 | Personal following | The political support provided to a candidate on the basis of personal popularity and networks. | |
| 12269116 | Two party system | An electoral system with two dominant parties that compete in national elections. | |
| 12269117 | Plurality system | An electoral system in which the winner is the person who gets the most votes, even if he or she does not recieve a majority; used in almost all American elections. | |
| 12269118 | Caucus | A meeting of party members to select delegates backing one or another primary candidate. |
