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Description
Mind Map by Tania Tait, updated more than 1 year ago
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Created by Tania Tait
about 5 years ago
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Linkage
Institutions
- Political Parties
- Main Goal: To nominate candidates
for public office and to get as many
of them elected as possible
- Functions
- Recruit & Nominate candidates
- Educate & mobilize voters
- Provide campaign funds & support
- Organize gov activity
- Recruit & Nominate candidates
- 3rd Parties
- Contribute to the
political process
- Bring light to new issues
- Reveals political divides
- Contribute to the
political process
- Main Goal: To nominate candidates
for public office and to get as many
of them elected as possible
- Interest Groups
- Organizations dedicated to a
particular goal or set of goals
- They have grown due to
bringing up issues that other
parties don't emphasize
- Types:
- Economic
- Public Interest
- Government
- P.A.C
- Economic
- Strategies:
- Electoral: -Political donations
-Endorsements -Direct Lobbying
-Testifying before Congress
- Non-Electoral: -Socializing -Rallying
their membership -Propaganda
- Electoral: -Political donations
-Endorsements -Direct Lobbying
-Testifying before Congress
- Pluralism: A theory that
political power is widely
distributed
- Organizations dedicated to a
particular goal or set of goals
- The Media
- 3 Roles
- Watchdog
- Scorekeeper
- Gatekeeper
- Watchdog
- Influences agenda by showing
stories they believe are important
- Officials use the media to
communicate to the
public about politics
- Leak: Gov officials that share
secret info to the media
- 3 Roles
- Elections
- Types of Elections
- Caucus: A meeting sof
local party members
during a primary election
- Open Primary: Party members,
independents, & members of
another party are allowed to
participate
- Closed Primary: Only a party's
registered voters are eligible to
cast a ballot
- Caucus: A meeting sof
local party members
during a primary election
- Type of Voting
- Straight-ticket: If one votes for
all of one party's candidates
- Split-ticket: Voting for candidates
of different parties for various
offices in the same election
- Straight-ticket: If one votes for
all of one party's candidates
- Electoral College: Representatives
from each state who cast the final
ballots that actually elect a president
- Superdelegates: National party
leaders who automatically get a
delegate slot at the Democratic
national party convention
- National Convention
- Nominate candidates
- Draft a party platform
- Rouse delegates
- Nominate candidates
- Types of Elections
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