Final Exam Flash Cards

A perspective that maintains that parties do not have clear and coherent ideological programs, and only appeal to the greatest number of votes

An organization that endorses one or more of it’s members as candidates and supports their election.

Parties that articulate distinct, consistent, and coherent ideological agendas.

A pattern of electoral competition that emerges between two or more parties.

A pattern of competition in which there are two, or primarily two parties

Pattern of competition whereby two major parties win at least three quarters of the vote, and a third party receives a much smaller share of the vote.

One large party recieves about 40 percent of the vote, and the two largest parties together win about two thirds if voter support.

Competition where there is no dominant party and three or four parties are well places to form coalitions.

An ideology based on a commitment to traditional ideas about the family and morality

Meetings of party members that are held to elect party officials and debate policy and amendments to the party’s constitution

A meeting of party members to select a new leader

An association of members of a political party in a territorial area that is represented by a member in the House of Commons

The formal process that see out the procedures for evaluating and possibly replacing a party leader

The system by which the votes that people cast are translated into the representation of political parties in the House of Commons

The drawing of boundaries for partisan advantage, particularly for the advantage of the governing party.

An electoral system in which voters in each district elect a single representative. The candidate with the most with the most votes is elected, regardless of whether that candidate received the majority of voters.

A governing party that has a majority of seats in the House of Commons regardless of whether it received a majority of votes I an election.

An electoral system in which the proportion of seats a party recieved in the legislative body reflects the proportion of votes the party obtained

An electoral system in which voters cast one vote for the party they prefer and one vote for the candidate they prefer. Some legislators represent the district in which they received votes, while other legislators are selected based on the proportion of votes received by their party.

A sense of attachment to a particular political party

A single party forms the government, but does not have a majority of members in the House of Commons

The fundamental rules by which a country is governed

An act of the parliament of the United Kingdom that established canada as a federal union of Ontario Quebec NS and NB

This act patria ted the constitution, established a formula for amending the constitution, added the charter of rights and freedoms, recognized the rights of aboriginal peoples, and made a commitment to the principle of equalization payments