PS 101 Chapter Notes - Chapter 7: New Deal Coalition, Republican National Committee, Caucus

• School: University of Illinois
• Department: Political Science
• Course: PS 101
• Professor: All

Document Summary

Jewish people, union members, and white southerners: parties in service: the role of the parties in recruiting, training, fundraising, and campaigning for congressional and presidential candidates. This aspect of party organization grew more prominent during the sixth party system: realignment: a change in the size or composition of the party coalition or in the nature of the issues that divide the parties. Unlike political action committees, they are not subject to contribution limits and spending caps: brand names: the use of party names to evoke certain positions or issues. Jackson and the democratic party: spoils system, party principle. Rewarding party supporters with benefits like federal government positions. 1932: ways of thinking about parties, party in the electorate, how do people develop their party affiliations, levels of affiliation. In most other countries: party coalitions(graph, trends in party identification(graph, party as organization, national committee. Principal body in each party; consists of representatives from state party organizations: state and local party organizations.