Beruflich Dokumente
Kultur Dokumente
Objectives
What Parties Do for
Democracy
A Brief History of
American Political
Parties
American Parties Today
How Parties Raise and
Spend Money
Are the Political Parties
Dying?
LO 7.1
LO 7.1
Party Systems
Two-party system
Weak minor parties
Multiparty systems in parliamentary governments
LO 7.1
LO 7.1
LO 7.2
LO 7.2
Realigning Elections
1824: Andrew Jackson and the Democrats
1860: The Civil Warthe Rise of the Republicans
1896: A Party in Transition
1932: Franklin Roosevelt and the New Deal
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LO 7.3
Parties as Institutions
National Party Leadership
Party Platforms
Parties at the State and Local Levels
LO 7.3
Parties in Government
Legislative Branch
Executive Branch
Judicial Branch
State and Local Levels
LO 7.3
LO 7.3
LO 7.3
Map of red states and blue states in the U.S. based on presidential elections since 2000. Red: The
Republican candidate carried the state in all four most recent presidential elections (2000, 2004, 2008,
2012). Pink: The Republican candidate carried the state in three of the four most recent
elections. Purple=The Republican candidate and the Democratic candidate each carried the state in two of
the four most recent elections. Light blue: The Democratic candidate carried the state in three of the four
most recent elections. Dark blue=The Democratic candidate carried the state in all four most recent elections.
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LO 7.5
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Grassroots
Strict
Uniform
Systematic
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Grassroots
Strict
Uniform
Systematic
Text Credits
190: From Obama More Popular Abroad Than at Home, Global Image
of U.S. Continues to Benefit July 2010, by Pew Global Attitudes Project.
Copyright (c) 2010 by Pew Global Attitudes Project, a project of the Pew
Research Center. Reprinted with permission.
191: From GUIDE TO U.S. ELECTIONS, 6e, Vol. 1. Copyright (c) 2010
by CQ Press. Reprinted with permission. 203: From VITAL STATISTICS
ON AMERICAN POLITICS, 2009-2010 by Harold W. Stanley and
Richard G. Niemi. Copyright 2010 by Stanley and Niemi. Reprinted by
permission of CQ Press.
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