Magruder's Chapter 5 Political Parties Vocabulary

Two major parties find common ground

• bipartisan

• consensus

• factions

• plurality

A general agreement among various groups.

• plurality

• consensus

• factions

• bipartisan

A temporary alliance of several groups who come together to form a working majority and so to control a government.

• political party

• coalition

• splinter party

• bipartisan

Parties that lack a clear ideological base, dissatisfied with current conditions and demanding better times and usually rooted in poor economic eras.

• economic protest parties

• splinter parties

• sectionalism

• spoils system

The people who are eligible to vote in elections.

• factions

• incumbent

• paritsanship

• electorate

Communist Party & Socialist Party

• examples of ideological parties

• examples of splinter parties

• examples of sectionalism

• examples of progressive parties

Greenback Party & Populist Party

• examples of splinter parties

• examples of economic protest parties

• examples of the spoils system

• examples of bipartisanship

Bull Moose Party & Progressive Party

• examples of splinter party

• examples of protest parties

• examples of single-issue party

• examples ideological parties

Competing groups

• factions

• coalition

• ward

• precinct

A political party whose beliefs are based on a particular set of beliefs is

• ideological party

• single issue party

• bipartisan

• ward