Slides

1. POL 303
Fall 2017

4. INSTRUCTIONS
Your group will createTWO party organizations,
one at the local level and the other at the national level.
You are working with a $50,000 budget at the local level
and a $50 million budget at the national level.
How will you set up each group?
What will you spend money on?

6.  Basic Unit = Precinct
 200,000 in US
 Offices often vacant because no one wants them
 Ward = Several connected precincts
 Series of wards are congressional district

7.  Historical – Party Machines (Tammany)
 Current – Activity LevelVaries
 Building Organization
 Elect County Officials
 Choose Primary Candidates for Special Elections
 Candidate Recruitment and Development
 Voter Registration, GOTV, Aid to Candidates

9.  Recruit candidates for statewide office
 Work with local parties (GOTV efforts)
 Organize state party convention
 Draft state party platform
 Decide spending of state party funds
 Selects members to national committee

10. BLAISE INGOGLIA.
REPUBLICAN PARTY
STEPHEN BITTEL,
DEMOCRATIC PARTY

12. REPUBLICAN
NATIONAL COMMITTEE
DEMOCRATIC
NATIONAL COMMITTEE

13. RNC
 168Total Members
 Each state has:
 One Committeeman (50)
 One Committeewoman (50)
 State Party Chair (50)
 Same layout for DC and
five U.S. territories (18)
DNC
 Over 400Total Members
 Chair andVice-Chair of
state Democratic parties
 Other Members:
 Two Democratic Leaders
from House and Senate
 Chair of Democratic Mayors’
Conference
 Chair of College Democrats

14.  Provide national leadership for party
 Support local, state, and national candidates
 Organize and run national party convention
 Conduct party business between conventions
 Develop fundraising and election strategy

15. RONNA ROMNEY MCDANIEL
REPUBLICAN NATIONAL CMTE.
TOM PEREZ
DEMOCRATIC NATIONAL CMTE.

17. PRAGMATISTS
(PROFESSIONALS)
 Practical
 Loyalty Constant
 Choice on Electability
PURISTS
(AMATEURS)
 Principled and Issue-Oriented
 LoyaltyVariable
 Choice on Principles

19. Five Members of the
Bush Family:
Prescott Bush,
George P Bush
George HW Bush
GeorgeW. Bush
Jeb Bush

22. THEODORE ROOSEVELT WILLIAM HOWARDTAFT

25. Harry S.Truman
1948 Democratic
National Convention

30. Gov. George Wallace (AL)

38. Nader’s campaigns
in 1996 and 2000
brought attention
to third party
politics.

42. MAURICE DUVERGER DUVERGER’S LAW
 Two parties emerge in countries
with simple plurality vote
 Example: Election with 100 voters
 Candidate A received 49% of vote
 Candidate B receives 26% of vote
 Candidate C receives 25% of vote
 Candidates B and C will work
together over time to defeat A,
producing two parties

45. DonaldTrump Marco Rubio