PSC 101 Lecture Notes - Lecture 9: Plurality Voting System, Wasted Vote, Party System
17 Dec 2019
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Psc 101-008 chapter 9 notes - political parties. Political party - an organization that tries to win control of the government by electing people to office who carry the party label. Two party system (u. s. is more candidate based than party based) 2 types of electoral systems and how they impact the number of parties: proportional representation. In u. s. , it is difficult for third parties to get any support. Candidates must get 5% of vote to get federal funding- funded so that big businesses can"t dominate who wins elections. Protest parties sometimes arise as part of a social movement. Ideological parties are organized around coherent sets of ideas. Single-issue parties are barely distinguishable from advocacy groups; difference is that they have candidates run for office. Splinter parties form when a faction in one of the two major parties bolts to run its own candidate(s)
