AP U.S. Government and Politics / Unit 5: Political Participation
5.3 Political Parties
Notes
Parties recruit candidates, mobilize voters, write platforms, organize government, and serve as linkage institutions.
- The US has a two-party system partly due to winner-take-all (single-member district) elections.
Practice
A major reason the US has two main parties:
Duverger's law.
Parties act as linkage institutions by:
Link people and policy.
A party's platform:
Policy statement.
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