POL 2101 Lecture Notes - Third Party System, Tweedledum And Tweedledee, Party System

• School: University of Ottawa
• Department: Political Science
• Course: POL 2101
• Professor: Luc Turgeon

Document Summary

Different political parties: liberal party, conservative party, ccf/ndp, other. Definition: any political group that presents at election, and is capable of placing through elections candidates for public office (sartori). Types of political parties: cadre vs mass parties. A party that tries to appeal to a variety of interest and bridge those differences by promising benefits to a variety of interests: objective is to incorporate representatives from different regions and groups o. Why: electoral success, need to maintain national unity and social stability, cleavages elites help maintain social cohesion. ); rather than what types of policies you support: voters have weak attachments to parties party leaders come and go and policy positions change. Definition: a pattern of electoral competition that emerges between two or more parties . Duverger electoral system and the number of parties: two-party system vs multi-party system. Two and a half party system, but with liberal dominance: third parties were present but had limited success.