third party

Examples of third party in the following topics:

• Ideological Third Parties and Splinter Parties

  • A third party is any party that supports a candidate for election other than the two major political parties; at the current moment, a third party would be any party other than the Democratic and Republican parties.
  • Third parties tend to be more ideological and extremist than the Democrats or Republicans.
  • The three main third parties are the Libertarian Party, the Green Party, and the Constitution Party .
  • An example of a small right-wing third party would be the America First Party.
  • Describe the largest and most significant third parties in American electoral politics

• The Impact of Minor Parties

  • Third-party candidates exert influence by focusing the election on particular issues and taking votes away from major candidates.
  • Third parties face many obstacles in American politics.
  • Numerically, third parties have won very few elected positions.
  • However, third parties do play an important role in national politics.
  • Third parties usually organize and mobilize around a single issue or position, putting pressure on candidates from major political parties to address these issues.

• The Role of Third Parties

  • American politics operate as a two-party system, and third party candidates do not play a major role in elections.
  • Although the American political structure has consistently been a two-party system, third parties occasionally influence elections, and third party candidates sometimes obtain elected positions.
  • "Third party" technically refers to the third largest party in a two-party system, but in the U.S. it generally refers to any party running in an election other than the major two.
  • While many electoral policies in the U.S. stack the odds against third party success, perhaps the greatest barrier to third party candidates is the vast amount of resources that major parties hold.
  • Moreover, throughout the past few decades, major party politicians have been able to neutralize third party threats by adopting or discrediting the views of third party candidates.

• The National Party Organization

  • Third parties have achieved relatively minor representation at national and state levels.
  • Many minor or third political parties appear from time to time.
  • At present, the Libertarian Party is the most successful third party.
  • New York State has a number of additional third parties that sometimes run their own candidates for office or nominate the nominees of the two main parties.
  • Statehood Party has served as a strong third party behind the Democratic Party and Republican Party.

• The Two-Party System

  • The modern political party system in the U.S. is a two-party system dominated by the Democratic Party and the Republican Party.
  • The Third Party System stretched from 1854 to the mid-1890s, and was characterized by the emergence of the anti-slavery Republican Party, which adopted many of the economic policies of the Whigs, such as national banks, railroads, high tariffs, homesteads and aid to land grant colleges.
  • The Fourth Party System, 1896 to 1932, retained the same primary parties as the Third Party System, but saw major shifts in the central issues of debate.
  • Second, voters learn, over time, not to vote for candidates outside of one of the two large parties since their votes for third party candidates are usually ineffectual.
  • There have been arguments that the winner-take-all mechanism discourages independent or third-party candidates from running for office or promulgating their views.

• Party Organization

  • The modern two-party system consists of the Democratic Party and the Republican Party.
  • Several third parties also operate in the United States and from time to time, elect someone to local office.
  • 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 .

• Political Parties

  • 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.
  • The smaller or "third" parties may hold the balance of power in a parliamentary system, and thus may be invited to form a part of a coalition government together with one of the larger parties; or may instead act independently from the dominant parties.
  • 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 Identification

  • People who identify with a political party either declare their allegiance by joining the party or show their support through regular party-line voting at the polls.
  • The longer an individual holds a party identification, the stronger that attachment to the party becomes.
  • People can easily switch their party affiliation or distance themselves from parties entirely.
  • At the same time, support for third parties, like Libertarians, has increased over the last decade.
  • Party coalitions consist of groups that have long-term allegiances to a particular political party.

• State and Local Party Organization

  • Chairpersons are usually selected by the president of the party in power and the party national committee chooses the chairperson for the other party.
  • Parties are structured at State and Local levels.
  • Of the 7,382 seats in all of the state legislatures combined, independents and third parties account for only 15 members, not counting the 49 members of the Nebraska Legislature, which is the only legislature in the nation to hold non-partisan elections to determine its members.
  • Usually the majority party (i.e.
  • Democrat or Republican) has the president in their party.

• 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.
  • Joining with former members of existing or dwindling parties, the Republican Party emerged.
  • The mixed economy policy adopted by the modern Democratic Party has been referred to as the "Third Way".
  • Identify the historical origins and development of the Democratic Party, as well as the demographics of the party