Political Science 2230E Quiz: Parties and Elections.docx

• School: Western University
• Department: Political Science
• Course: Political Science 2230E
• Professor: Cristinede Clercy

Document Summary

Institutions: a social structure organized to achieve goals for society: examples: parliament, a constitution, a political party, the courts, the media. Independent variable: that which causes: does their thing autonomously/ independently. Dependent variable: that which is affected: variable = thing that varies, age, height, eye color, population, political support for a party etc, it is affected by the independent variable. John meisel"s party functions grid: 7 functions of parties: Interest aggregation: parties are not unitary actors, they are groups of groups every party has factions within it, liberal party = center left. Within the party there are difference of opinions and different groups: new democrat party has a group called the union group (huge group and its part of their party"s founding). In a one party system there is one party that will always win. Not very high: if they don"t then conclusively were back to a two party system.