faction

Examples of faction in the following topics:

• Factions

  • All connections among actors within a faction would be present, all connections between actors in different factions would be absent.
  • Network>Subgroups>Factions is an algorithm that finds the optimal arrangement of actors into factions to maximize similarity to the ideal type, and measures how well the data actually fit the ideal type.
  • If you have a prior hypothesis that a given population was divided into two factions, you could "test" this hypothesis by seeing how much error remained after defining two optimal factions.
  • It is, however, the best we can do with four "factions."
  • The picture then not only identifies actual or potential factions, but also tells us about the relations among the factions -- potential allies and enemies, in some cases.

• Two-mode factions analysis

  • An alternative block model is that of "factions."
  • Networks>Subgroups>Factions fits this block model to one-mode data (for any user-specified number of factions).
  • Network>2-Mode>2-Mode Factions fits the same type of model to two-mode data (but for only two factions).
  • In principle, there could be more than two such factions.
  • Two mode factions model of California $1M donors and ballot initiatives (truncated)

• "Extend the Sphere"

  • The question Madison answers, then, is how to eliminate the negative effects of factions.
  • Madison first assessed that there are two ways to limit the damage caused by faction: either remove the causes of faction or control its effects.
  • Madison argues that the only problem comes from majority factions, because the principle of popular sovereignty should prevent minority factions from gaining power.
  • He offers two ways to check majority factions: prevent the "existence of the same passion or interest in a majority at the same time" or render a majority faction unable to act.
  • Explain Madison’s view of the role of government in protecting America against factions

• The Lecompton Constitution

  • The Lecompton Constitution, drafted by proslavery factions, was a state constitution proposed for the state of Kansas that rivaled the constitution proposed by the Free-Soil faction.
  • It was produced in September 1857 by the territorial legislature, which consisted mostly of slaveowners in response to the antislavery position of the 1855 Topeka Constitution drafted by the Free-Soil faction.
  • Both the Topeka and Lecompton Constitutions were placed before the people of the Kansas Territory for a vote, and both votes were boycotted by supporters of the opposing faction.

• John Randolph and the Old Republicans

  • When Virginia congressman John Randolph broke with Jefferson in 1806, his political faction became known as the "Old Republicans," or "quids."
  • Virginia congressman John Randolph of Roanoke was the leader of the "Old Republican" faction of Democratic-Republicans that insisted on a strict adherence to the Constitution and opposed any innovations.
  • This faction of of the Democratic-Republican party was an extreme vanguard of states' rights who wanted to restrict the role of the federal government.
  • Other "quid" factions existed in other states, and many had little or no connection at the federal level.
  • The New York and Pennsylvania "quid" factions had no connection with one other at the federal level; both supported President Thomas Jefferson.

• Uniting Competing Factions Within the Party

  • Most of the language used in party platforms is generic to appeal to a wide audience while other sections are narrowly written to appeal to certain factions or interest groups in the party.
  • Platforms created during presidential nominating conventions unite diverse factions within a party by adopting middle-of-the-road positions on issues and addressing special interest groups in some sections.

• Colonial Government

  • None of the colonies had stable political parties of the sort that formed in the 1790s, although each had shifting factions that vied for power.
  • For instance, there were often "country" and "court" factions representing those opposed to and in favor of, respectively, the governor's actions and agenda.
  • Massachusetts also had a strong populist faction that typically represented the province's lower classes.

• Jackson and the Democratic Party

  • The modern Democratic Party arose in the 1830s out of factions from the largely disbanded Democratic-Republican Party.
  • The modern Democratic Party was formed in the 1830s from former factions of the Democratic-Republican Party, which had largely collapsed by 1824.
  • After the disappearance of the Federalists after 1815 and the subsequent "Era of Good Feelings" (1816–1824), a group of weakly organized political factions dominated the American political landscape until about 1828–1832, when the modern Democratic Party emerged along with its rival, the Whigs.
  • The 1840s and 1850s were the heyday of a new faction of young Democrats called "Young America."
  • Polk, Franklin Pierce, and New York financier August Belmont, this faction broke with the agrarian and strict constructionist orthodoxies of the past and embraced commerce, technology, regulation, reform, and internationalism.

• Politics within the Revolutionaries

  • Similarly to its predecessor, it was fractured into factions although the divisions proved to be more extreme than at the Legislative Assembly.
  • They had 302 members in 1793 and 1794, including committee members and deputies who voted with the faction.
  • This faction eventually gained overwhelming power in the Convention and governed France during the Reign of Terror.
  • However, the Right opposed the seating arrangement because they believed that deputies should support private or general interests but should not form factions or political parties.
  • They came into conflict with The Mountain (Montagnards), a radical faction within the Jacobin Club.

• The Bolsheviks

  • The Bolsheviks were a faction of the Marxist Russian Social Democratic Labour Party (RSDLP), which split apart from the Menshevik faction at the Second Party Congress in 1903.
  • The Bolsheviks were the majority faction in a crucial vote, and ultimately became the Communist Party of the Soviet Union.
  • When the Provisional Government chose to continue fighting the war with Germany, the Bolsheviks and other socialist factions campaigned for stopping the conflict.
  • After the Bolshevik revolution, civil war erupted between the "Red" (Bolshevik), and "White" (anti-Bolshevik) factions.