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| 240798377 | Caucus | a closed meeting of party leaders to select party candidates | |
| 240798378 | Congressional campaign committee | a committee in each party to help elect or reelect members | |
| 240798379 | Democratic- republicans | the political party founded and led by Thomas Jefferson | |
| 240798380 | Factional parties | parties formed by a split within one of the major parties | |
| 240798381 | Factions | a name applied by some of the Founders to political parties, to connote their tendency toward divisiveness | |
| 240798382 | Federalists | the political party founded and led by Alexander Hamilton | |
| 240798383 | Ideological parties | parties that value principle above all else | |
| 240798384 | Initiative | an election in which citizens can place on the legislative agenda proposals by nongovernment groups | |
| 240798385 | Machine | a party unit that recruits members with tangible rewards and that is tightly controlled by the leadership | |
| 240798386 | Mugwumps | a name for party volunteers who later come to form their own reform movement | |
| 240798387 | National chair | the person elected and paid to manage the day to day work of a national political party | |
| 240798388 | National committee | delegates from each state who manage party affairs between conventions | |
| 240798389 | National convention | a meeting of elected party delegates every four years to nominate presidential and vice presidential candidates and ratify a campaign platform | |
| 240798390 | Nonpartisan election | an election in which candidates for office are not identified by party labels | |
| 240798391 | Organizational party | a party that stresses national organization to raise money and give assistance to local candidates and party units | |
| 240798392 | Personal following | the political support provided to a candidate on the basis of personal popularity and networks | |
| 240798393 | Plurality system | an electoral system in which the winner is the person who gets the most votes but not necessarily a majority of votes | |
| 240798394 | Political machine | a party organization that recruits members by dispensing patronage | |
| 240798395 | Political party | a group that seeks to elect candidates to public office by supplying them with a label | |
| 240798396 | Progressives | a name for party volunteers who later come to form their own reform movement | |
| 240798397 | Proportional representation | an electoral system that distributes numerous seats to parties on the basis of their percentage of their popular vote | |
| 240798398 | Referendum | an election in which citizens directly approve or disapprove legislation proposed by the government | |
| 240798399 | Second-party system | the arrangement of political parties initiated by Andrew Jackson | |
| 240798400 | Solidary groups | parties organized around sociability, rather than tangible rewards or ideology | |
| 240798401 | Solidary incentives | the social rewards that lead people to join political organizations | |
| 240798402 | Stalwarts | a name for a party professional, as opposed to volunteers | |
| 240798403 | Superdelegates | elected officials who serve as delegates to the national convention | |
| 240798404 | Two party system | an electoral system with two dominant parties that compete in state and national elections | |
| 240798405 | Winner-take-all | an elected system that gives the only office to the candidate with the largest vote total, rather than appointing numerous offices by the percentage of total vote |
