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caucus
a meeting of the members of a legislative body who are members of a particular political party, to select candidates or decide policy.
coalition
an alliance for combined action, especially a temporary alliance of political parties forming a government or of states.
critical election
A realigning election (often called a critical election or political realignment) is a term from political science and political history describing a dramatic change in the political system. Scholars frequently apply the term to American elections and occasionally to other countries.
dealignment
Dealignment, in political science, is a trend or process whereby a large portion of the electorate abandons its previous partisan affiliation, without developing a new one to replace it. It is contrasted with realignment.
Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee (DCCC)
The Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee (DCCC, spoken as the D triple-C or the D-trip) is the Democratic Hill committee for the United States House of Representatives, working to elect Democrats to that body.
Democratic National Committee (DNC)
The Democratic National Committee is the formal governing body for the United States Democratic Party. The committee coordinates strategy to support Democratic Party candidates throughout the country for local, state, and national office.
Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee (DSCC)
The Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee (DSCC) is the Democratic Hill committee for the United States Senate. It is the only organization solely dedicated to electing Democrats to the United States Senate.
Democrat-Republicans
The term "Democratic-Republican" is used especially by modern political scientists for the first "Republican Party" (as it called itself), also known as the Jeffersonian Republicans. Historians typically use the title "Republican Party".
Divided Government
Divided government is the term used in the USA to refer to the situation in which one party controls the presidency while the other party controls Congress. In other words, one party controls the executive while the other party controls the legislature.
economic protest
There are basically four types of third parties: ideological, social protest, economic protest and splinter. They are defined below. Ideological - a party that advocates total change of political system. Social protest - a party that opposes the social policies of the government in power.
parties
An organization that seeks political power by electing people to office so that its positions and philosophy become public policy. Term. Nonpartisan Election. Definition. A local or judicial election in which candidates are not selected or endorsed by political parties and party affiliation is not listed on ballots
elites
In political and sociological theory for a small group of powerful people that controls a disproportionate amount of wealth, privilege or political power in a society.
Free soil party
The party leadership consisted of anti-slavery former members of the Whig Party and the Democratic Party. Its main purpose was to oppose the expansion of slavery into the western territories, arguing that free men on free soil comprised a morally and economically superior system to slavery.
Grand Old Party (GOP)
The Republican Party, commonly referred to as the GOP (abbreviation for Grand Old Party), is one of the two major contemporary political parties in the United States, the other being its historic rival, the Democratic Party.
H. Ross Perot
Henry Ross Perot, better known as Ross Perot, is an American businessman best known for being an independent presidential candidate in 1992 and the Reform party presidential candidate in 1996.
ideological party
Ideological third parties, such as Libertarians and Communists, are based upon a set of social, political, and economic beliefs. In contrast, single-issue parties, such as the Anti-Masonic Party or the Prohibition Party, focus on one single electoral issue.
Know-nothings
a member of a political party in the US, prominent from 1853 to 1856, that was antagonistic toward Roman Catholics and recent immigrants and whose members preserved its secrecy by denying its existence.
McGovern-Fraser
The McGovern-Fraser Commission, formally known as Commission on Party Structure and Delegate Selection, was a commission created in response to the tumultuous 1968 Democratic National Convention.
Commission
City commission government is a form of local government in the United States. In a city commission government, voters elect a small commission, typically, from five to seven members, on a plurality-at-large voting basis.
Minor parties
Minor parties in the U.S. include the Libertarian Party, the Green Party, Constitution Party, and others that have less influence than the major parties. Since the American Civil War (1861-1865), the major parties have been the Republican Party and the Democratic Party.
National Republican Senatorial Committee (NRSC)
The National Republican Senatorial Committee (NRSC) is the Republican Hill committee for the United States Senate, working to elect Republicans to that body. The NRSC was founded in 1916 as the Republican Senatorial Campaign Committee.
New Deal coalition
The New Deal coalition was the alignment of interest groups and voting blocs in the United States that supported the New Deal and voted for Democratic presidential candidates from 1932 until the late 1960s.
party chairperson
In politics, a party chair (often party chairman/-woman/-person or party president) is the presiding officer of a political party. The role of a party chairman is often quite different from that of a party leader.
party convention
In politics, a political convention is a meeting of a political party, typically to select party candidates. In the United States, a political convention usually refers to a presidential nominating convention, but it can also refer to state, county, or congressional district nominating conventions.
platform
A political party platform or platform is a formal set of principal goals which are supported by a political party or individual candidate, in order to appeal to the general public, for the ultimate purpose of garnering the general public's support and votes about complicated topics or issues.
popular sovereignty
Popular sovereignty or the sovereignty of the people's rule is the principle that the authority of a state and its government is created and sustained by the consent of its people, through their elected representatives (Rule by the People), who are the source of all political power.
rank and file
Rank and file may refer to: A military term relating to the horizontal "ranks" (rows) and vertical "files" (columns) of individual foot-soldiers, exclusive of the officers. Positions on a chess board in chess terminology. A term derived from the above used to refer to enlisted rank troops, as opposed to the officers.
realignmnets
A realigning election (often called a critical election or political realignment) is a term from political science and political history describing a dramatic change in the political system. Scholars frequently apply the term to American elections and occasionally to other countries.
reform party
The Reform Party of the United States of America (RPUSA), generally known as the Reform Party USA or the Reform Party, is a political party in the United States, founded in 1995 by Ross Perot.
Republican National Committee (RNC)
The Republican National Committee is a U.S. political committee that provides national leadership for the Republican Party of the United States.
Republicans
a person advocating or supporting republican government.
a member or supporter of the Republican Party.
single-issue parties
A single-issue party is a political party that campaigns on only one issue. Such a party is rarely successful in gaining elected office. It is generally believed that single-issue parties are favoured by voluntary voting systems, as they tend to attract very committed supporters who will always vote.
single-member district
A single-member district or single-member constituency is an electoral district that returns one officeholder to a body with multiple members such as a legislature. This is also sometimes called single-winner voting or winner takes all.
splinter/bolter parties
3rd Parties which unite around the idea that government is not responding to some part of the constituencies demands.
spoiler
The spoiler effect is the effect of vote splitting between candidates or ballot questions [n 1] with similar ideologies. One spoiler candidate's presence in the election draws votes from a major candidate with similar politics thereby causing a strong opponent of both or several to win.
superdelegates
(in the Democratic Party) an unelected delegate who is free to support any candidate for the presidential nomination at the party's national convention.
Theodore Roosevelt
Theodore Roosevelt Jr. was an American statesman, author, explorer, soldier, naturalist, and reformer who served as the 26th President of the United States from 1901 to 1909.
ticket splitting
Split-ticket voting refers to when a voter in an election votes for candidates from different political parties when multiple offices are being decided by a single election.
two-party system
A two-party system is a party system where two major political parties dominate politics within a government. One of the two parties typically holds a majority in the legislature and is usually referred to as the majority or governing party while the other is the minority or opposition party.
United We stand America
United We Stand America was the name selected by Texas businessman H. Ross Perot for his citizen action organization after his 1992 independent political campaign for President of the United States.
Whigs
The Whigs were a political faction and then a political party in the parliaments of England, Scotland, Great Britain and the United Kingdom. Between the 1680s and 1850s, they contested power with their rivals, the Tories.
white primary
White primaries were primary elections held in the Southern states of the United States of America in which only white voters were permitted to participate. White primaries were established by the state Democratic Party units or by state legislatures in many Southern states after 1890.
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Consider the following probabilities: $P(A)=0.25, P\left(B^C\right)=0.40$, and $P(A \cap B)=0.08$. Find: $$ P(B \mid A) $$
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$\underline{\phantom{\text{justTTTtext}}}$. political content is given by a media source that lets the reader or viewer know upfront there is a political bias or position. a. Overt b. Covert c. Explanatory d. Expository
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Consider the random experiment of rolling a fair die three times, and let $X$ denote the random variable that counts the number of times a $6$ appears. a. List all possible outcomes of this experiment and the value that $X$ assigns to each outcome. b. List the outcomes that make up the event $(X=2)$. c. List the outcomes that make up the event $(X<3)$. d. Find each of these probabilities: $P(X=0), P(X \leqq 2)$, and $P(X>2)$
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Explain **two** reasons why a cooperative like mondragon might be at an advantage compared to a private enterprise.
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