1. Select and Support
-Selecting Candidates
-Supporting Candidates
-Patronage

2. Select and Support
-Selecting Candidates
-Supporting Candidates
-Patronage

3. Select and Support
-Selecting Candidates
-Supporting Candidates
-Patronage

4. Information
-Informing the Public
-Keep voters aware of party goals
and objectives
-help candidates get elected to
office
-Methods??

5. People’s Beliefs
-Grassroots Movement
-term applied to a political idea or
movement that starts with citizen
organization
-Popular Sovereignty
-idea that people have the right to
rule themselves
-more involved citizens

6. Watch Dogs
-Political Parties keep watch over
each other
-why???
-insures good government
-alerts citizens to corruption

7. Linking Government
-Parties help connect the different
levels of government
-President
-Congress
-Governors
-State Legislatures
-Local Governments

8. Party Roles Today
-Parties are weaker today than in
the past
-less party loyalty
-more media influences
-non-partisan elections
-Elections are do not allow the use
of political parties---usually for
position that are seen as non-
political such as school boards