Chapter 11

Collection of people or organizations that tries to influence public policy

Party organization that recruits voter loyalty with incentives

Politics that focus on the candidate's particular issues, and character rather than party affiliation

Shifts in the partisan preferences that alter the political landscape

Election that signals a party realignment through voter polarization around new issues and personalities

Rearrangment of party coalitions based more on demographic shifts than on shocks to the political system

Increasingly conflicting and divided viewpoints between both political parties

Party meeting held in the presidential election year for the purposes of nomination a presidential and vice ticket and adopting a platform

Statement of the general and specific philosophy and policy goals of a political party, usually promulgated at the national convention

Citizen's personal affinity for a political party

Cooperative relationship that facilitate the resolution of collection problems

The tendency to form a small scale associations for the public good

Theory that political power is distributed among a wide array of diverse and competing interest groups

Theory that interest groups form as a result of changes in the political system

Theory that public policies are the result of narrowly defined exchanges or transactions among political actors

Something of value that cannot be withheld from a nonmember of a group

A person who finances a group or individual activity

Potential members fail to join a group because they can get the benefit sought by the group without contributing the effort

Interest group reps who seek to influence legislation that will benefit his/her organization or client through political/financial persuasio

A group that represents a specific industry

The activities of a group or organization that seek to persuade political leaders to support the group's position

Fundraising organization that represent interest groups and are allowed by federal law to make contributions directly to candidate's campaig