What are the 3 basic varieties of parties?
1. parties that promote certain causes (prohibition of alcoholic beverages, or socialism or libertarianism)
2. Splinter parties - offshoots of a major party (T. Roosevelt's Progressives in 1912, Strong Thurmond's States' Righters in 1948, and George Wallace's American Independents in 1968)
3. An extension of a popular individual with presidential aspirations (Anderson 1980; Perot 1992 and 1996)
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- What is the most frequent response to the Party ID question?
- What was the rational-choice theory? Who suggested it?
- What are the four major changes that have occurred in the party system with the emergence of the split-level party?
- What were the 5 party realignments?
- What are the three arenas that political parties exist within?
- What do advocates of the responsible party model believe?
- What reforms placed jobs under the merit system rather than the machine's discretion, weakening the machine's power?
- In 2004, what percent of the population called themselves independents?
- What had the American National Election Study found that the population believes?
- What are the three-headed political giants?
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