Political Parties

-political party

-a group of people with similarbeliefs and ideas aboutgovernment

-what are their beliefs???

Kinds of Party Systems

-One Party system

-Two Party system

-Multi-Party System

Two Party System

-System used by United States

-Democrats

-Republicans

Party Differences

-hard to tell the differencesbetween the Parties in the UnitedStates

-Democrats

-Republicans

Fears of Our System

-lack of political choices

-fear that parties would divide thenation

-”dangers of factions”

-George Washington’s Warnings

-minority may be ignored bymajority

Advantages / Disadvantages

-Advantages

stability in government

experienced leaders

-Disadvantages

minority ignored

little change in government

Multi-Party System-3 or more parties

-lots of choices

-single party majorities rare

-coalitions--when two or moreparties join together in order tomake a majority in a multi-partysystem

-coalitions control most multi-party systems

-can be unstable because coalitionsfrequently fail and new coalitionsare formed

Party voting in Scotland

One Party System

-only one political party

-usually a dictatorship or communistsystem

-competition from other partiesusually not allowed

-little political freedom