Chapter 5





Daisy Alcaraz
Patricia Andrews
State and Local Government
February 14, 2019
S&LG Ch.5
In chapter five we take a look at what a political party is, it is an organization that nominates candidates to compete in elections and promote policy ideas. Even so the actions of the elected official play a major role in the operation of government which is also decentralized. We learned that with each political party their will be a group of ideologies that they tend to follow. The ideology of the political party is the core beliefs about how the political system should run. The two most famous political parties are the republicans and the democrats. The republicans tend to be more conservative while democrats tend to be more liberal in comparison to the republicans. Throughout centuries we have gone back and forth between these two parties since no one party is perfect, developing this common practice called ticket splitting which is voting for one candidate of a different political parties in a general election which most commonly result in the voting for a democrat for one office but voting for a republican for another. This tends to lead to a divided government which just means that one party controls the governor's office, while the other party controls the legislature. This doesn’t always happen however there is times where both offices are controlled by the same party, and that's known as a Unified Government. But it is not always just one group or the other at times people even feel what is known as a dealignment which is when one person's attachment to one political parties gets weakened which then leads to the ticket splitting.

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