POLITICAL PARTIES

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POLITICAL PARTIES

• Chapter 11

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Goal of Parties

• TO GET CANDIDATES ELECTED!
• BUT could our democracy exist without them
  WHY did they evolve?
• Definition?

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Five Common Functions of All Political Parties

• Nominate candidates
• Run campaigns
• Provide a party image
• Advocate specific policies
• Coordinate policymaking and its implementation
• Which function is most important to parties?

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Are Americas two parties extreme in their
differences?
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Party Eras in U.S. History

• U.S. has typically been a 2 party nation
• Does a 2 party system mean that there are only
  2 parties?
• Party eras are typical in U.S. history
• Each party era is noted by

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First Party Era 1796-1824Development of Parties

• Federalists
• 1st shortest-lived party
• Capitalists / bankers, merchants, etc.
• Only Federalist P?
• Democratic-Republicans
• Agrarian interests
• Torn apart by factionalism after Federalists die
  out

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Second Party Era 1828-1860Rise of the Democrats

• Andrew Jackson Democrats
• Common man, farmers, universal male suffrage
• Whigs were Anti-Jackson party
• Henry Clay, northern industrialists
• only 2 Whig Ps who were aging war heroes (Wlm
  Henry Harrison Zachary Taylor)

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Third Party Era 1860-1896Rise of the
Republicans

• Anti-slavery party replace Whigs
• Democrats only control South

Third Party Era 1896-1932Republican Dominance

• William McKinley v. William Jennings Bryan
• Gold standard vs. free silver
• Industry, urban dominance
• Grand Old Party GOP (Thomas Nast)

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Fourth Party Era 1932-1964Democratic Dominance

• New Deal Coalition, FDR
• Supported by?
• Great Society, LBJ
• War on Poverty
• What tore Dems apart
• opened door for
• Republicans in 1968 Nixon?
• Democrats have only 3 Ps win since LBJ Who?