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chapter 7 vocab
| Nonpartisan election | A local or judicial election in which candidates are not selected or endorsed by political parties and party affiliation is not listed on ballots. |
| Patronage | The dispensing of government jobs to persons who belong to the winning political party. |
| Political party | An organization that seeks political power by electing people to office so that its positions and philosophy become public policy. |
| Honeymoon | Period at the beginning of the new president’s term during which the president enjoys generally positive relations with the press and Congress, usually lasting about six months. |
| Caucus | A meeting of local party members to choose party officials or candidates for public office and to decide the platform. |
| Party convention | A meeting of party delegates to vote on matters of policy and in some cases to select party candidates for public office. |
| Direct primary | Election in which voters choose party nominees. |
| Open primary | Primary election in which any voter, regardless of party, may vote. |
| Crossover voting | Voting by member of one party for a candidate of another party. |
| Closed primary | Primary election in which only persons registered in the party holding the primary may vote. |
| Winner-take-all system | Election system in which the candidate with the most votes wins. |
| Minor party | A small political party that rises and falls with a charismatic candidate or, if composed of ideologies on the right or left, usually persists over time; also called a third party. |
| Realigning election | An election during periods of expanded suffrage and change in the economy and society that proves to be a turning point, redefining the agenda of politics and the alignment of voters within parties. |
| Divided government | Governance divided between the parties, as when one holds the presidency and the other controls one or both houses of Congress. |
| Party registration | The act of declaring party affiliation; required by some states when one registers to vote. |
| Party identification | An informal and subjective affiliation with a political party that most people acquire in childhood. |
| Dealignment | Weakening of partisan preferences that points to a rejection of both major parties and a rise in the number of independents. |
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