Chapter 9 vocabulary for the Wilson AP Government textbook
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| 664277777 | political party | Group that seeks to elect candidates and gives them a label | |
| 664277778 | factions | A name applied by some of the Founders to political parties, to connote their tendency towards divisiveness | |
| 664277779 | Federalists | The political party founded and led by Hamilton | |
| 664277780 | Democratic Republicans | The political party founded and led by Jefferson | |
| 664277781 | second party system | The arrangement of political parties initiated by Andrew Jackson | |
| 664277782 | Stalwarts | A name for party professionals, as opposed to volunteers | |
| 664277783 | Mugwumps | A name for party volunteers who later come to form their own reform movement | |
| 664277784 | nonpartisan election | An election in which candidates for office are not identified by party labels | |
| 664277785 | organizational party | A party that stresses national organization to raise money and give assistance to local candidates and party units | |
| 664277786 | referendum | An election in which citizens directly approve or disapprove legislation proposed by the government | |
| 664277787 | critical period | Features a sharp, lasting shift in the popular coalition supporting one or both parties | |
| 664277788 | initiative | An election in which citizens can place on the legislative agenda proposals by non-government groups | |
| 664277789 | superdelegates | Elected officials who serve as delegates to the national convention | |
| 664277790 | winner take all | An electoral system that gives the only office to the candidate with the largest vote total, rather than apportioning numerous offices by the percentage of the total vote | |
| 664277791 | machine | A party unit that recruits members with tangible results and that is tightly controlled by the leadership | |
| 664277792 | caucus | A closed meeting of party leaders to select party candidates | |
| 664277793 | ideological parties | Parties that value principle above all else | |
| 664277794 | solidary groups | Parties organized around sociability, rather than tangible rewards or ideology | |
| 664277795 | sponsored parties | Party units established or maintained by outside groups | |
| 664277796 | split ticket voting | The practice of voting for one major party's candidate in state or local elections and the other's at the national level | |
| 664277797 | proportional representation | An electoral system that distributes numerous seats to parties on the basis of their percentage of the popular vote | |
| 664277798 | factional parties | Parties formed by a split within one of the major parties | |
| 664277799 | party column ballot | A ballot listing all candidates of a given party together under the name of that party | |
| 664277800 | congressional campaign committee | A committee in each party to help elect or reelect members | |
| 664277801 | national party chair | The person elected and paid to manage the day-to-day work of a national political party | |
| 664277802 | national committee | Delegates from each state who manage party affairs between conventions | |
| 664277803 | national convention | A meeting of elected party delegates every four years to nominate presidential and vice-presidential candidates and ratify a campaign platform | |
| 664277804 | 2 party system | An electoral system with two dominant parties that compete in state and national electoins | |
| 664277805 | office bloc ballot | A ballot listing all candidates for a given office under the name of that office | |
| 664277806 | plurality system | An electoral system in which the winner is the person who gets the most votes but not necessarily a majority of votes | |
| 664277807 | political machine | A party organization that recruits members by dispensing patronage | |
| 664277808 | solidary incentives | The social rewards that lead people to join political organizations | |
| 664277809 | personal following | The political support provided to a candidate on the basis of personal popularity and networks |
