Political Parties in Texas - Govt 2306 Chapter 4
This is a practice game on political parties for Government 2306 - Texas Government
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Topics of this game:
- Which of the following did the political scientist V.O. Key state as a basic function of the political party?
- A political philosophy that believes in limited government, free markets, and individual entrepreneurship is
- Voters, especially less politically involved ones, often use _______________ to determine how to vote.
- A political philosophy that emphasizes social equality and a large role for government to protect liberties and alleviate social problems is
- Who usually recruits candidates to run for office?
- During elections, political parties "fire up" their mechanisms to get loyal voters to the polls to support party-endorsed candidates. This is because ______________ is critical to electoral victory.
- A list of party values, beliefs, and policy issues that are endorsed and supported by a political party is known as a
- Which type of voter tends to volunteer more of their time and money and are more likely to turn out to vote in party primaries and other elections?
- Who are elected in the party's primary to serve a two year term and are responsible for recruiting volunteers, coordinating campaign workers, and participating in get-out-the-vote and voter registration drives?
- Who is responsible for developing and communicating the party's brand to the voters, and raising political funds for the party?
- How often are party conventions held in Texas?
- Which of these were the most priminant words in the Democratic party platform?
- For Republicans, the most prominent words in their party platforms were:
- Which party dominated Texas politics for more than 130 years after the Civil War?
- A federal economic recovery program in response to the Great Depression that stabilized the banking industry, created jobs, promoted fair labor standards, and created a social welfare network was known as the
- In 1952 and 1960, nearly what percentage of Texans identified as members of the Democratic Party?
- Sorting of the parties by ideology drove conservative Texans toward the
- Who is quoted in 1985 as saying "Exactly three people voted Republican that day. The two of us and a man who you could say was a little inebriated and wasn't sure what he was doing.?
- Who was the first Republican to win statewide office after Reconstruction, replacing then Senator Lyndon Johnson in a special election to fill the seat after Johnson joined the Kennedy administration?
- Which presidential year headlined by Ronald Reagan helped Republicans elect more than 150 county officials and substantial gains for the Republican Party in the Texas Legislature?
- What were the original goals of the Tea Party?
- Which political party controlled the Texas Legislature throughout the 1990s?
- The Republicans first won a majority of seats in the Texas House of Representatives since the civil war in what year?
- What kind of changes were responsible for pushing conservative Democrats out of the Democratic Party and into the Republican Party?
- Among Texas Republicans, how many identify with the Tea Party movement?
- Electoral conflict that signals how successful one party is over another is referred-to as
- Political scients use which of these to measure party competition?
- Compared to past yeasrs, Texas party competition is
- Every 10 years, state legislators meet in order to redistribute representation based on the decennial recounting of residents. This is called ___________
- The redrawing of legislative districts to meet federal and state requirements is called
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