party platform

Examples of party platform in the following topics:

• Coordinating and Promoting Party Policy

  • These organizations are responsible for developing and promoting party platforms, which express the types of views each party embraces.
  • While the planks of platforms do not all necessarily become policies, they can lead to highly politicized debates between parties that become party policy stances.
  • The DNC and RNC coordinate party policy during the Democratic and Republican National Conventions where party platforms are adopted.
  • While relatively little of the party platform is adopted as public policy, the platforms often become politicized because they are more ideological than pragmatic.
  • Meanwhile, party policy is promoted through a variety of interactions between parties and the mass media .

• Uniting Competing Factions Within the Party

  • Parties unite these disparate viewpoints by developing party platforms that outline party positions on issues and the actions leaders will take to implement them if elected.
  • These platforms frequently adopt middle-of-the-road positions to encompass the interests of a diverse range of supporters.
  • 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 are created during presidential nominating conventions where delegates have an opportunity to vote on salient issues.
  • 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.

• Likeability of Political Candidates

  • A candidate's liberal or conservative ideology is usually expressed by affiliation with a political party — in the U.S. the Republican Party is understood to be conservative and the Democratic Party is understood to be liberal.
  • One's stance on economic regulation, immigration, and abortion, for example, may be inferred from political party membership.
  • In large part, this association is supported by political parties' platforms in the U.S.
  • At the same national convention where parties nominate candidates for president, they formalize a platform enumerating party beliefs and objectives.
  • When a candidate for state or national office affiliates with a party, they are therefore associated with that party's written platform.

• The National Convention

  • Political parties hold national conventions to nominate candidates for the presidency and to decide on a platform.
  • National party conventions are designed to officially nominate the party's candidate and develop a statement of purpose and principles called the party platform.
  • Relatively little of a party platform is even proposed as public policy.
  • Unlike electoral manifestos in many European countries, the platform is not binding on either the party or the candidate.
  • Because it is ideological rather than pragmatic, however, the platform is sometimes itself politicized.

• Hosting Conventions

  • The major political parties in the U.S. host the Democratic and Republican National Conventions to select candidates and rally supporters.
  • The conventions develop a statement of party principles and goals known as a party platform.
  • The conventions also generate positive publicity towards each respective party.
  • Some minor political parties in the U.S. also utilize conventions to select their presidential candidates.
  • Examples of such minor parties include the Green Party, Socialist Party USA, Libertarian Party, Constitution Party, and Reform Party USA.

• The Democratic Party

  • The Democratic Party is a major political party in the US which promotes a social liberal, social democratic and progressive platform.
  • The Democratic Party is one of two major contemporary political parties in the United States along with the Republican Party.
  • Since the 1930s, the party has promoted a social liberal, social democratic and progressive platform, and its Congressional caucus is composed of progressives, liberals, centrists, and left-libertarians.
  • Joining with former members of existing or dwindling parties, the Republican Party emerged.
  • Some of the party's key issues in the early 21st century in their last national platform have included the methods of how to combat terrorism, homeland security, expanding access to health care, labor rights, environmentalism, and the preservation of liberal government programs.

• The National Party Organization

  • The modern political party system in the United States is a two-party system dominated by the Democratic Party and the Republican Party.
  • Among the two major parties, the Democratic Party generally positions itself as left-of-center in American politics and supports a modern liberal platform, while the Republican Party generally positions itself as right-of-center and supports a conservative platform.
  • At various times, the Socialist Party, the Farmer-Labor Party and the Populist Party had considerable local strength, and then faded away.
  • At present, the Libertarian Party is the most successful third party.
  • Statehood Party has served as a strong third party behind the Democratic Party and Republican Party.

• The Modern Era of Political Parties

  • Modern politics in the United States is a two-party system dominated by the Democratic Party and the Republican Party.
  • Modern politics in the United States is a two-party system dominated by the Democratic Party and the Republican Party.
  • The Democratic Party is one of two major political parties in the United States, and is the oldest political party in the world.
  • The other major contemporary political party in the United States is the Republican Party.
  • Today, the Republican Party supports an American conservative platform, with foundations in economic liberalism, fiscal conservatism, and social conservatism.

• Political Parties

  • Parties often espouse an expressed ideology or vision bolstered by a written platform with specific goals, forming a coalition among disparate interests.
  • Partisan style political parties varies according to each jurisdiction, depending on how many parties there are, and how much influence each individual party has.
  • In single-party systems, one political party is legally allowed to hold effective power.
  • One right wing coalition party and one left wing coalition party is the most common ideological breakdown in such a system, but in two-party states political parties are traditionally parties that are ideologically broad and inclusive.
  • More commonly, in cases where there are three or more parties, no one party is likely to gain power alone, and parties work with each other to form coalition governments.

• Party Organization

  • Parties often espouse an expressed ideology or vision bolstered by a written platform with specific goals, forming a coalition among disparate interests.
  • The modern two-party system consists of the Democratic Party and the Republican Party.
  • The modern political party system in the United States is a two-party system dominated by the Democratic Party and the Republican Party.
  • The Democratic Party is one of two major political parties in the United States.
  • It is the oldest political party in the world .