The winner of a popular vote can still fail to be elected. The majority party in the state legislature can use which redistricting process to help defeat an incumbent of the minority party. It can craft districts that pit an incumbent against another incumbent.

Which of the following voter profiles most strongly suggests that an individual will identify with the Democratic Party? Black, female, from the Northeast.

Initiative. Which presents the greatest threat to congressional incumbents of the president’s party? A mid-term election after the president’s sixth year in office.

Which political party do nonvoters typically support? Why would potential candidates for elective office be advised to learn the demographics of their districts? Demographic factors influence voter turnout. Which constitutional amendment gave 18-year-olds the right to vote?

Made it illegal to apply unequal procedures to voter registration. Required literacy tests to be written at a 6th grade level of reading. By 1970, Congress will outlaw literacy tests altogether.

Political. Political decentralization signifies a reduction in the authority of national governments over policymaking. A national government may decide to decentralize its authority and responsibilities for a variety of reasons.

In its most general term, decentralization refers to the transfer of authority from a central government to a sub-national entity. There are many ways in which a government may devolve power to the sub-national level. Thus, decentralization can be political, administrative, fiscal, or economic.

The most complete forms of decentralization from a government’s perspective are privatization and deregulation because they shift responsibility for functions from the public to the private sector.

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• Minor Parties. Single-issue, economic protest, splinter, ideological parties.
• 4 Types of Minor Parties. ideological.
• Splinter Parties. Parties that have split away from one of the major parties.
• Single-issue Parties.
• Economic Protest Parties.
• Ideological Party.

In the United States, political parties consist of three parts: the party as government (members of the party who hold public office), the party as organization (committees, leaders and activists who work to promote the party and the candidates), and the party as electorate (citizens who support the party through party …

Election to the presidency requires an absolute majority of the 538 electoral votes. The absolute majority requirement makes it extremely difficult for a third-party candidate to win the presidency because the individual states’ electoral votes are allocated under a winner-take-all arrangement (with two exceptions).