POSC 100 Study Guide - Midterm Guide: Energistics, Party System, Political Action Committee
20 Oct 2015
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Posc 100: cora goldstein: exam 3 study guide. Political parties through elections, and to promote ideas about public policies; a group organized to nominate candidates, to try to win political power. Us comes closer to having a pure 2 party gov. more than any other democracy in the world. 1860--republicans vs. democrats have controlled presidency and congress since. -structural factors, the way our elections are organized, it"s hard for minor or third parties to gain much of the vote. The 2 ways to organize elections are either --proportional representation or. The kinds of rules that organize elections that help determine what kind of party system exists. The result of pr--democracies that tend to have multi-party system. It is used in most countries of western europe (italy, spain, germany, uk) Basically, congress is what is called parliament, and each party is represented in the legislature in proportion to the percentage of votes they receive in an election.
