Political Parties

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Political Parties

• The unpopular party
• 2. Functions of parties
• 1. Linkage
• 2. Recruitment
• 3. Campaign assistance
• 4. Posing alternatives
• 5. Labels and cues
• 6. Conflict does democracy work without parties?
• Party in government
• Party organization
• Party in electorate

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• 6. Why two parties? Proportional representation
  vs.
• plurality, winner-take-all, single member
  districts
• 7. Party identification
• Important predictor of political choice and
  engagement
• Relatively stable long term guide (commitment?)
• Rise of independents but persistence of
  partisanship
• Citizenship and partisanship
• Changing nature of independence?