front 1 Political Party | back 1 An organized group of party leaders, officialholders, and voters who work together to elect candidates to political office. |
front 2 Geofencing | back 2 a virtual boundary around a geographic area to trigger an action or enforce a rule when a device enters or exits. |
front 3 Party Identification | back 3 The degree to which a voter is connected to and influenced by a particular political party. |
front 4 Straight-Ticket Voting | back 4 Voting for all of the candidates on the ballot from one political party. |
front 5 Split-Ticket Voting | back 5 Voting for candidates from different parties in the same election. |
front 6 Party Platform | back 6 A set of positions and policy objectives that members of a political party agree to. |
front 7 Recruitment | back 7 The process through which political parties identify potential candidates. |
front 8 Party Coalition | back 8 Group of voters who support a political party over time. |
front 9 Linkage Institution | back 9 The organizations and channels that connect citizens to the government and allow them to express their political preferences. |
front 10 Nomination | back 10 The formal process through which parties choose their candidates for political office. |
front 11 Rational-Choice Theory | back 11 People who vote or act in politics based on what they believe will best serve their own personal benefits. |
front 12 Party Image | back 12 The public's perception of what each political party stands for. Including its values, policies, and reputation. |
front 13 Realignment | back 13 When the groups of people who support a political party shift their allegiance to a different political party. |
front 14 Critical Election | back 14 A major national election that signals a change in the balance of power between the two parties. |
front 15 Party Era | back 15 The time period when one party wins most national elections. |
front 16 Divided Government | back 16 A trend since 1969, in which one party controls one or both houses of congress and the president is from the opposing party. |
front 17 Delegates | back 17 A person who acts as the voters’ representative at a convention to select the party’s nominee. |
front 18 Primary Election | back 18 An election in which a state’s voters choose delegates who support a presidential candidate for nomination or an election by a plurality vote to select a party’s nominee for a seat in congress. |
front 19 Open Primaries | back 19 A primary election in which all eligible voters may vote, regardless of their political party affiliation. |
front 20 Closed Primaries | back 20 A primary election in which only those who have registered as a member of a political party may vote. |
front 21 Caucus | back 21 A process through which a state’s eligible voters meet to select delegates to represent their preferences in the nomination process. |
front 22 Superdelegate | back 22 Usually a Party leader or activist who is not pledged to a candidate based on the outcome of the state’s primary or caucus. |
front 23 Front-Loading | back 23 A decision by a state to push its primary or caucus to a date as early in the election season as possible to gain more influence in the presidential nomination process. |
front 24 National Convention | back 24 A meeting where delegates officially select their political party’s nominee for the presidency. |
front 25 Candidate-Centered Campaigns | back 25 A trend in which candidates develop their own strategies and raise money with less influence from the party elite. |
front 26 Two-Party System | back 26 A system in which two political parties dominate politics, winning almost all elections. |
front 27 Proportional Representation | back 27 An election system for a legislature in which citizens vote for parties, rather than individuals, and parties are represented in the legislature according to the percentage of the vote they receive. |
front 28 Single-Member Plurality System | back 28 An election system for choosing members of the legislature where the winner is the candidate who receives the most votes, even if the candidate does not receive a majority of the vote. |
front 29 Winner-Take-All System | back 29 An electoral system where the candidate who wins the most votes in a given area receives all the electoral votes for that area. |
front 30 Ross Perot | back 30 Billionaire businessman who ran for president twice, influencing American politics by focusing campaigns on issues like the national debt and free trade agreements. |
front 31 Ralph Nader | back 31 A lawyer who has run for president on third-party tickets, highlighting his impact on issues like consumer safety, environmental protection, and campaign finance reform. |