What are the 3 basic varieties of parties?

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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