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Political PartiesPolitical Parties
Parties and What They Do
Dubbs Govt
Parties and What They Do
Dubbs Govt
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What is a Political Party? It’s NOT what you think of when you think “party”
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A group of persons who seek to control government by winning elections and holding public office.
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Why would people want to create
parties?
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FUNCTIONS OF
POLITICAL PARTIES
• Nominating Function• Informer-Stimulator
Function• Seal of Approval Function• Governmental Function• Watchdog Function
Pretty boring slide, eh?
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NOMINATING FUNCTION• Sets political parties apart
from other political groups
• The Democratic and Republican parties are election-oriented rather than issue-oriented.
• Parties help election campaigns
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Informer-Stimulator Function
• Share this with news media and interest groups
• Stimulates public to participate in public affairs
• Campaigning and publicity, (i.e., buttons, pamphlets, stickers, and media)
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Seal of Approval FUNCTION
• Party plants a “seal of approval” on candidates
• Creates loyalty in the candidate
• Helps ensure that office-holders do a good job so that the party can stay in power
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Governmental Function
• Party connections help executive and legislative branches of government to cooperate with one another
• Under separation of powers, the party connects the branches, (esp. E & L)
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Parties watch each other--the WATCHDOG FUNCTION
• The party “in power” is the party in charge of the EXECUTIVE branch
• If parties are watching each other’s actions, how will that help the people?
• If parties are watching each other, how will that hurt government processes?
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the WATCHDOG FUNCTION
ACCOUNTABILITY: The party NOT in power has a responsibility to monitor the party in power. This is what is know as loyal opposition—or partisan politics.
Partisan: Along party lines
Bi-partisan: Two-parties
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Who is Earl Dodge?
The Prohibition Parties candidate for President of the US in 1984, 1988, 1992, 1996, and 2000.
Why don’t you know him?
Democrats and Republicansdominate American politics
Who is Earl Dodge?
The Prohibition Parties candidate for President of the US in 1984, 1988, 1992, 1996, and 2000.
Why don’t you know him?
Democrats and Republicansdominate American politics
What does it mean?
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What is a ►one of the many political parties that does not
Minor/third receive wide voter support
Party?
Why a
two-party
system? That’s the way it has always been
Force of Tradition
Electoral System:
State election laws are written to discourage minor parties.
Americans tend to agree on important issues:
We have a pluralistic society: range of culture/groups
BUT, there is still a broad consensus
Major parties tend to take moderate stands on issue
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Other types of political
systems
• Multiparty systems
• One Party systems—what comes to mind when you hear this?
• Which country would be more stable: a country with a two party system or a country with many parties?
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Two Major
Parties:
• Democrats: LIBERAL
• Republicans: CONSERVATIVE
GOP: Grand Old Party
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PartyFollowings • Traditionally, many parts of the
United States have been dominated by one party.
• What party dominates Baltimore?• What party dominates Howard
County?• What party dominates western
Maryland?• What party dominates Maryland?
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• Red: Republican
• Blue: Democrat
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Era’s for Presidents:
• 1800-1860: Democrats
• 1860-1932: Republicans
• 1932-1968: Democrats
• Start of a New Era: Era of Divided Government: 1968-present
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Former Democratic PresidentsPresident Franklin Delano Roosevelt President Harry S. Truman
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President John F. Kennedy President Lyndon B. Johnson
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President Jimmy Carter President William Jefferson Clinton
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Former Republican PresidentsPresident Abraham Lincoln President Dwight D. Eisenhower
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President Ronald ReaganRichard M. Nixon
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President George H.W. Bush President George W. Bush
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Minor Parties in the United
States
• Ideological parties
• Single issue parties
• Splinter parties
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Ideological Party
• Focuses on effecting overall change in society
• Views tend to be extreme
• Long-term
• Socialist, communist, Nazi
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Single-issue party
• Focuses on one major social, economic, or moral issue
• Short term, issues are no longer important or absorbed by major party
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Splinter Party
• Splits away from major party because of a disagreement
• Form around strong leader, who normally failed to win major party’s nomination
• Lasts until leader loses support or issued absorbed
• TR’s “Bull Moose” Progressive Party split from the Republican Party in 1912.
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What do third
parties do? • Improve the system by focusing on issues
• Act as a “spoiler” in an election.
• What do you think happens if a third party gains a lot of support?
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Organization
of political
parties
Impact of Federalism:
Parties have offices at local, State and federal levels.
The Role of the President:The President is the leader of his or her party.The party not in power has no comparable leader.
Organization
of political
parties
Impact of Federalism:
Parties have offices at local, State and federal levels.
The Role of the President:The President is the leader of his or her party.The party not in power has no comparable leader.
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NATIONAL PARTY MACHINERY
• National Convention Committee
• The National Committee
• The National Chairperson
• The Congressional Campaign Committees
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Three Basic Elements /
Levels• Party in the Electorate:
Voters
• Party Organization: Workers
• Party in Government: Office Holders
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Characteristics of Political
PartiesParties are like HUGE
businesses:
• Have leaders
• Leaders fight within the business
• Pyramid structure
• Have workers
• Have meetings/conventions