1. Political Parties
-political party
-a group of people with similar
beliefs and ideas about
government
-what are their beliefs???

2. Kinds of Party Systems
-One Party system
-Two Party system
-Multi-Party System

3. Two Party System
-System used by United States
-Democrats
-Republicans

4. Party Differences
-hard to tell the differences
between the Parties in the United
States
-Democrats
-Republicans

5. Fears of Our System
-lack of political choices
-fear that parties would divide the
nation
-”dangers of factions”
-George Washington’s Warnings
-minority may be ignored by
majority

6. Advantages / Disadvantages
-Advantages
stability in government
experienced leaders
-Disadvantages
minority ignored
little change in government

7. Multi-Party System
-3 or more parties
-lots of choices
-single party majorities rare
-coalitions--when two or more
parties join together in order to
make a majority in a multi-party
system
-coalitions control most multi- Party voting in Scotland
party systems
-can be unstable because coalitions
frequently fail and new coalitions
are formed

8. One Party System
-only one political party
-usually a dictatorship or communist
system
-competition from other parties
usually not allowed
-little political freedom