Chapter 14 Chapter Exam

. 1. Mass organizations that seek to elect candidates to public office and influence policymaking are known as

. 2. Nearly all major political parties in the United States have at some point found themselves dangerously divided over

. 3. Dealignment is marked by

. 4. A period when voter allegiances toward the political parties shift for an extended period of time, resulting in one party emerging as dominant, is known as

. 5. A period when voters abandon their ties to the political parties, resulting in a balance of power between the two major parties, is known as

. 6. Caucuses are

. 7. Proportional representation is an election system

. 8. Winner-take-all is an election system

. 9. Primaries are an election system

. 10. ________ is the heavily regulated money that is directly raised by political candidates for their campaigns.

. 11. ________ is the unregulated campaign donations that can support party infrastructure but cannot directly support a candidate's campaign.

. 12. A practice by Southern state Democratic parties in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries intended to disenfranchise Blacks by preventing them from voting in the crucial Democratic Party primary elections was known as the

. 13. The South used to be

. 14. Party identification and partisan support often correspond to

. 15. A national party committee determines the national party goals and ___________.

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