POS 2041 Study Guide - Midterm Guide: New Deal Coalition, Jacksonian Democracy, Proportional Representation
5 Jul 2017
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In europe political parties are known to stick to the same policies. Whig party started, against andrew jackson, republicans came to be from it against slavery. The point in history when a new party supplants the ruling party, becoming in turn the dominant political force; in the united states, this has tended to occur roughly every 30 years. A single-member district or single-member constituency is an electoral district that returns one officeholder to a body with multiple members such as a legislature. An electoral system in which parties gain seats in proportion to the number of votes cast for them. A normally closed meeting of a political or legislative group to select candidates, plan strategy, or make decisions regarding legislative matters. National party conventions purpose: nominate p and vp, establish party rules, ratifies parties platform. People who spend their own personal time supporting their party. It may be by holding up signs, passing out pamphlets.
