Democratic Party

Examples of Democratic Party in the following topics:

• Democratic Socialism

  • France is an example of a democratic socialist state.
  • Specifically, it is a term used to distinguish between socialists who favor a grassroots-level, spontaneous revolution (referred to as gradualism) from those socialists who favor Leninism (organized revolution instigated and directed by an overarching vanguard party that operates on the basis of democratic centralism).
  • Debs made five bids for president: once in 1900 as candidate of the Social Democratic Party and then four more times on the ticket of the Socialist Party of America.
  • Leninism is based on the philosophy of Vladimir Lenin, who advocated organized revolution led by a vanguard party.
  • In 2012, French voters elected the Socialist Party candidate, François Hollande, into office with the expectation that he will meet his campaign promises to introduce greater socialist policy.

• African Americans as a Political Force

  • The large majority of African Americans support the Democratic Party.
  • Historically, African Americans were supporters of the Republican Party because it was Republican President Abraham Lincoln who granted freedom to American slaves; at the time, the Republicans and Democrats represented the sectional interests of the North and South, respectively, rather than any specific ideology—both right and left were represented equally in both parties.
  • The African American trend of voting for Democrats can be traced back to the 1930s during the Great Depression, when Franklin D.
  • Roosevelt's New Deal coalition turned the Democratic Party into an organization of the working class and their liberal allies, regardless of region.
  • The African American vote became even more solidly Democratic when Democratic presidents John F.

• Democracy in the U.S.

  • Unlike the United Kingdom and other similar parliamentary systems that directly choose a particular political party, Americans vote for a specific candidate.
  • The modern political party system in the United States is a two-party system dominated by the Democratic Party and the Republican Party.
  • These two parties have won every United States presidential election since 1852, and have controlled the United States Congress since at least 1856.
  • Periodically, several other third parties achieve relatively minor representation at the national and state levels.
  • Among the two major parties, the Democratic Party generally positions itself as left-of-center in American politics and supports a liberal platform, while the Republican Party generally positions itself as right-of-center and supports a conservative platform.

• Hispanics as a Political Force

  • While Hispanics have a diversity of views, they disproportionately identify themselves as Democratic and/or support Democratic candidates.
  • In 2006, 69% of Hispanic voters supported Democratic candidates in congressional races, while only 30% supported Republican candidates.
  • For example, Cuban Americans and Colombian Americans tend to favor conservative political ideologies and to support the Republican Party.
  • Mexican Americans, Puerto Rican Americans, and Dominican Americans, on the other hand, tend to favor liberal views and to support the Democratic party.
  • That being said, because the latter groups are far more numerous (Mexican Americans account for 64% of Hispanics in the U.S.) the Democratic Party is considered to be in a far stronger position with Hispanics overall.

• Political Parties

  • Thus, for an American to say that he or she is a member of the Democratic or Republican party, is quite different from a Briton's stating that he or she is a member of the Labour party.
  • At the federal level, each of the two major parties has a national committee (See, Democratic National Committee, Republican National Committee) that acts as the hub for much of the fund-raising and campaign activities, particularly in presidential campaigns.
  • The map below shows the results of the 2008 Presidential Election in the United States, illustrating the strength of the two major parties varies by geographic region in the U.S., with Republicans stronger in the South, Midwest, and some Mountain states while Democrats are stronger along the coasts.
  • Sweden has a multi-party system, with numerous parties in which no one party often has a chance of gaining power alone, and parties must work with each other to form coalition governments.
  • The Pirate Party is the third largest party in Sweden in terms of membership.

• The U.S. Political System

  • Although nothing in U.S. law requires it, in practice, the political system is dominated by political parties.
  • With rare exceptions, elections are decided between the two major parties: Democrats and Republicans.
  • Therefore, much of U.S. politics boils down to party politics.

• The Marxist Critique of Capitalism

  • Marxism influenced social democratic and labor parties as well as some moderate democratic socialists, who seek change through existing democratic channels instead of revolution, and believe that capitalism should be regulated rather than abolished.

• Socialism

  • Social democrats also promote tax-funded welfare programs and regulation of markets.
  • Elsewhere in Asia, some elected socialist parties and communist parties remain prominent, particularly in India and Nepal.
  • The Communist Party of Nepal in particular calls for multi-party democracy, social equality, and economic prosperity.
  • In Denmark, the Socialist People's Party more than doubled its parliamentary representation to 23 seats from 11, making it the fourth largest party.
  • The LCR abolished itself in 2009 to initiate a broad anti-capitalist party, the New Anticapitalist Party, whose stated aim is to "build a new socialist, democratic perspective for the twenty-first century".

• Types of Governments

  • A Communist state is a state with a form of government characterized by single-party rule of a Communist party and a professed allegiance to an ideology of communism as the guiding principle of the state.
  • Communist states may have several legal political parties, but the Communist party is usually granted a special or dominant role in government, often by statute or under the constitution.
  • Consequently, the institutions of the state and of the Communist party become intimately entwined, such as in the development of parallel institutions.
  • For Marxist-Leninists, the state and the Communist Party claim to act in accordance with the wishes of the industrial working class; for Maoists, the state and party claim to act in accordance to the peasantry.
  • In most Communist states, governments assert that they represent the democratic dictatorship of the proletariat.

• Types of States

  • The United States is a democratic presidential republic: a democratic government headed by a powerful elected executive, the president.
  • Totalitarian regimes or movements maintain themselves in political power by means of an official all-embracing ideology and propaganda disseminated through the state-controlled mass media, a single party that controls the state, personality cults, control over the economy, regulation and restriction of free discussion and criticism, the use of mass surveillance, and widespread use of state terrorism.
  • Brown represents single-party republics, green shows countries where government has been suspended (e.g., military dictatorships), and grey countries do not fit any of the above categories.