Interest Groups and Political Parties Vocab

One party system

• Voting along party lines

• political system where only one party exists

• Party that controls the Presidency or governship

• temporary alliance to gain majority control of gov’t to influence policy

Partisan

• Voting along party lines

• political system where only one party exists

• temporary alliance to gain majority control of gov’t to influence policy

• Party that controls the Presidency or governship

Coalition

• Voting along party lines

• political system dominated by two major parties

• Party that controls the Presidency or governship

• temporary alliance to gain majority control of gov’t to influence policy

Party- In -Power

• Party that controls the Presidency or governship

• temporary alliance to gain majority control of gov’t to influence policy

• political system dominated by two major parties

• Voting along party lines

Republican Party

• Liberal, gov’t programs, women.

• party based on a particular set of beliefs

• Conservative, upper-class, church-goers

• group of people who set out to control the gov’t through elections and holding office

Democratic Party

• group of people who set out to control the gov’t through elections and holding office

• Liberal, gov’t programs, women.

• party based on a particular set of beliefs

• Conservative, upper-class, church-goers

Political Party

• temporary alliance to gain majority control of gov’t to influence policy

  political system dominated by two major parties

• Voting along party lines

• group of people who set out to control the gov’t through elections and holding office

• party based on particular set of beliefs

Ideological party

• Focus of party is on one policy matter

• group of people who set out to control the gov’t through elections and holding office

• Liberal, gov’t programs, women.

  party based on a particular set of beliefs

• party based on a particular set of beliefs

Single Issue Party

• Group of people who set out to control the gov’t through elections and holding office

• Focus of party is on one policy matter

• Party based on a particular set of beliefs

• Liberal, gov’t programs, women.

Bipartisan

• Interest group within business community

• The current officeholder

• all the people entitled to vote during an election

• Support for policy by two parties