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Political Parties and Elections
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1. National party conventions are still important to electoral politics because they continue to
2. Progressive Era reforms to political parties ended the party machine structure and caused which of the following consequences?
3. The organization of a two-party system benefits from federalism because
4. Political parties first developed in the United States when
5. The Republican Party, formed in 1854, initially brought together various existing political parties over what piece of legislation?
6. The creation of national party conventions in the early 1830s allowed broader participation in nominating presidential candidates and in
7. The Democratic Party was created by assembling a political network with the purpose of electing President ____________________.
8. An alternative to the winner-take-all system of American elections that would undermine the two-party system is
9. "The primary incentive for the creation and continuation of political parties is"
10. Political parties make mass democracy possible because they do all of the following EXCEPT
11. Candidate-centered rather than party-centered politics flourished in twentieth-century American politics because
12. The cohesive, organized structure of political parties is designed primarily to
13. Political parties use labels, messaging, and issues to organize members of the party in order to
14. The long-standing two-party structure in American government is due to Duverger’s law, which states that
15. Prior to Progressive Era reforms, political parties maintained control at the local level through
16. Successful political parties continually develop
17. Political parties build stable legislative and electoral alliances by
18. Thomas Jefferson was the founder of the Democratic Republicans, or Jeffersonians, due to his opposition to which Federalist leader?
19. Modern political parties cannot run party machines that control all aspects of electoral outcomes because of which of the following reforms?