Chapter 11 Learning Objectives and Key Concepts

Chapter 11

Learning Objectives

  • Understand how political scientists view the formal political organization of interest groups into parties and similar bodies.
  • Understand the basic types of parties and party systems observed by political scientists.
  • Understand the major implications of different types of party systems.
  • Analyze the implications of different forms of aggregating and expressing group interests and addressing these interests through political institutions (e.g., pluralism versus corporatism).
  • Learn major theories about the relationship between institutional design and stability of governments.

Key Concepts

  • Political Parties
  • Party Systems
  • Interest Groups
  • Political Parties: Elite, Mass, and Catch-All Parties
  • Party Systems: Dominant-Party, Two-Party, and Multiparty Systems
  • Interest Groups: Pluralism and Corporatism
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