POLS 1336 Chapter Notes - Chapter 9: Franklin D. Roosevelt, Southern Strategy, Secret Ballot
25 Dec 2017
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What are political parties: political party group of individuals who join together to choose candidates for elected office, party platform a document that lays out the party"s core beliefs and policy proposals. What political parties do: parties in the electorate, parties offer opportunities for political participation, people can participate by identifying with a party, parties provide the broadest and most open gateway to participation in. Thomas jefferson, andrew jackson, and the emergence of the democratic. North and midwest tended to be concentrated in rural areas. Party control of presidential nominations: no apparatus has ultimate control over republican voters" choice of nominee, hence trump was elected despite the official support of the republican. Independents must pledge to support one of the two major parties to sit on committees and perform their other responsibilities as legislators: bernie chose to caucus with the democrats.
