1 / 14

Political Parties

What Is A Political Party?. Group of people seeking to control government by winning elections and holding public office. What Do Political Parties Do?. Nominating FunctionRecruit candidatesChoose candidatesSupport candidatesInformer-Stimulator FunctionTake stands on issuesCriticize stands of other candidates.

drea
Download Presentation

Political Parties

An Image/Link below is provided (as is) to download presentation Download Policy: Content on the Website is provided to you AS IS for your information and personal use and may not be sold / licensed / shared on other websites without getting consent from its author. Content is provided to you AS IS for your information and personal use only. Download presentation by click this link. While downloading, if for some reason you are not able to download a presentation, the publisher may have deleted the file from their server. During download, if you can't get a presentation, the file might be deleted by the publisher.

E N D

Presentation Transcript

    1. Political Parties

    2. What Is A Political Party? Group of people seeking to control government by winning elections and holding public office

    3. What Do Political Parties Do? Nominating Function Recruit candidates Choose candidates Support candidates Informer-Stimulator Function Take stands on issues Criticize stands of other candidates

    4. What Do Political Parties Do? “Seal of Approval” Function try to nominate qualified candidates monitor public officials

    5. What Do Political Parties Do? Governmental Function Source of political appointees Link between legislative and executive branches

    6. What Do Political Parties Do? Watchdog Function party out of power criticizes party in power forces public officials to be more accountable

    7. Why Do We Have Two Major Parties? History Founding fathers were opposed to parties In the debate over the Constitution, the Federalists and Anti-Federalists became the first two parties Tradition Most Americans support 2 party system Minor parties have not made much progress

    8. Why Do We Have Two Major Parties? The Electoral System Single member districts State election laws discourage minor parties American Ideological Consensus Americans tend to agree more than they disagree Major parties tend to take moderate stands to attract the most voters

    9. Minor Party Contributions Innovators Can play “spoiler” role Important critics and reformers When minor party ideas get popular, they are usually adopted by major parties

    10. Organization of Political Parties President is automatically leader of his party Party not in power has no comparable leader

    11. How National Parties Are Organized National Convention: meet in summer of each election year to nominate Presidential and Vice Presidential candidates, write rules and platform

    12. Party Organization National Committee: stages national convention and handles party business

    13. Party Organization National Chairperson: promotes party unity, raises money, recruits voter support chosen by party nominee

    14. Party Organization Congressional Campaign Committees: work to increase party’s number of congressional seats

    15. Party Organization State political parties Local political parties

More Related