Political Parties: The Most Powerful Groups In American Politics

American Politics Today defined Interest groups as “organizations of people who share common political interests and aim to influence public policy by electioneering and lobbying. Lobbying involves convincing an elected official or bureaucrat to help enact a law, craft a regulation, or do something else that a group wants”. Thus, America being a nation that welcomes new ideas and ways of doing things, will probably surfer set-backs if it place limits on one of the most used gateways (interest groups ) of its citizens to the Government. For example, if tomorrow the federal government decides that for national security reasons all phone and internet communications must be recorded. Imagine the impact this will have on U.S Tech companies; people will drastically reduce the rate they use phones and internet; stocks of companies like Google, Apple, Facebook, Microsoft etc. Will go down. And at the end of the day these Tech firms are denial the possibility of reaching the government through limitations on interest group.

In the United States of America, the political party system is pivotal to the function of our nation. The political party system in our society today is separated between the Democrats and the Republicans. Although political parties do possess uncertainties their advantages outweigh their drawbacks in America. The United States of America is made up of two basic political parties, the Democratic Party and the Republican Party. A political party is a group of individuals who share similar interest and they work together with one another to construct and execute policies. The Democratic Party was established in 1828, by Andrew Jackson. The Democratic Party was created based on a belief in an unyielding government and an advocacy of social and

There are two major political parties in the United States, the Democrats and the Republicans. The Democratic symbol is a donkey they got this from the colonial times when andrew jackson kept being called a donkey so he started to use it, and we have used it ever since. The republicans got their symbol from Nast. Nast invented a famous symbol the Republican elephant. In a cartoon that Nast that had ran in Harper 's Weekly in the year 1874, Nast drew a donkey clothed in lion 's skin, scaring away at all the animals in the zoo. One of those animals was the elephant, this elephant was labeled “The Republican Party Vote.” this cartoon is all it took for the elephant to become the Republican Parties mascot.

Today, there exists the rift in the American political system marked by the ongoing clash between our political parties: the Republicans and the Democrats. These parties’ dissenting ideas seem to create non-stop conflict as each party relentlessly competes for the support and votes of the American people. However, over two hundred years ago in the early days of our country’s government, political parties did not even exist. Early leaders, such as the revered George Washington, feared that political parties would split our country into warring factions that would not only subvert our delicate notion of patriotism, but also weaken public support for the new Constitution. Nonetheless, despite opposition by Washington and others, political parties began to form, and over the years have developed into the familiar political system we have today. The chief factors that led to the rise of political parties were the disagreements between influential politicians over the structure of the government, the proper interpretation of the Constitution, and foreign policy regarding European nations.

Chapter Seven Essay--Trace the development of political parties during Washington's administration and describe their basic philosophies.

The Republican Party is one of the two major parties in America. Almost 200 thousand people follow the GOP on social media. But do you know how this party started? This party first started in 1854 in a schoolhouse in1854 where abolitionist came and voiced in their thoughts on slavery. Do you even know the history of this party? This party put in the first women supreme court justice and congresswomen.

AARP offers members gainful amenities, for example, health and auto insurance, homeowner's, and life, alongside investment opportunities and retirement trusts, travel, simple living, and recreational ways of life, offer senior rebates, and it gives other monetary items. AARP profits essentially from insurance industry royalties, which represented almost 46% of their income in 2009, though enrollment levy represented a measly 17%. It is profoundly improbable that AARP would be such a political behemoth if it was not for these royalties. AARP spent $49 million on lobbying in 2007 through 2009. It pays lobbyists to petition Congress and federal agencies directly and for advertising campaigns such as “Divided We Fail,” a 2008 call for healthcare reform co-sponsored by AARP, Business Roundtable, National Federation of Independent Business and Service Employees International Union (SEIU) (Carney, 2010). AARP’s role in the healthcare debate is complicated by the fact that it is an insurance broker. The organization is not itself an insurer, but it funnels its membership list to for-profit insurance companies, and in exchange collects hundreds of millions of dollars annually in royalties (Carney, 2010). AARP knows how to throw its weight around in the

It would only make sense that half of this class is on political parties and the other half would be about interest groups. They are both inherently different and fundamentally similar at the same time. Both work to sway the pendulum of public policy in the direction they believe in (Alexander, 2015). The main difference is that political parties attempt to gain political office, where interest groups are not in that business. Interest groups are in a sense a key part of a pluralistic society. They allow for everyday people to lobby and petition government. While it is true that we have interest groups in existence today, it has not always been that way. Up until the 1960’s, the power of politics was in the hands of the parties (Cigler, 2015). Many factors, such as television, a more educated electorate, etc, contributed to the creation of a power vacuum in the 1960’s. Interest groups swiftly and aggressively took the role that had formerly been that of the parties. As we have seen this power shift, so have we seen an explosion in the number of organized interests. In 1900, there were 200 registered groups in Washington D.C. Today there are 15,000. It is reasonable to be both intrigued and horrified by the concept of these groups. On one side, they are like anybody else who cares about the direction of the country. On the other, they are unelected, unrepresentative impactors of the system I must live in. While I am not trying to say they are a god send or evil, my point is

The Constitution has nothing to say about political parties. Nowhere does it define political parties or explicitly specify that there should be two dominant parties. Nevertheless, America has had a strong two party system for last 150 years, a degree of party stability and endurance that can be found in no other nation (Landy and Milkis, 451). This system of two dominant parties has both its advantages and its drawbacks, the same as any system will. The two strong parties simplify and stabilize American politics from both the citizens’ and the politicians’ point of view and allow for government to be unified across the separation of powers built into the Constitution

Within the section over the organization of congress, I found the section over party leadership and the organization in the House and Senate to be most interesting. The book stated, "political parties in Congress are the fundamental building blocks from which policy coalitions are fashioned to pass legislation and monitor its implementation..." (Pg. 210). I think this is an easier way to think about how both democratic and republican parties function in Congress. In addition, I found the election of House leaders intriguing. Every two years a party caucus is held by the Democrats and a party conference by the Republicans. A majority leader is then put before the whole house and elected as the Speaker of the

The u.s. Constitution does not discuss or describe political parties.indeed, many of the founding fathers feared the rise of parties, they felt that partisanship could tear apart the nation. But political parties emerge almost as soon as the new government establish. Today political parties continue to greatly influence american politics, they made elections, made political disputes, and organize congress. Our political leaders come from either the republican or democratic party. Nevertheless, the american political system supports more than just these parties, and third party candidates often have lasting impacts on the politics. My opinion about political party is that they continue to view democratic party more favorably than the republican

As I came from a country that is one party dominated—China, where I grew up, people are not much interested in China’s political system, since we did not have a say about who is going to be the chairman of China, nor making any changes to our political system. Therefore, I found it fascinated to study other country’s political parties.

As we all have known, our world has changed so much. It has been struggling and improving a countless times until now to achieve this peaceful society. For example, the World War one and two, or the Civil War which happened in many countries including the U.S. At first, people may think these fights are unnecessary because nothing can compare to a human being or an individual life, but we cannot accomplish this community without any of them. These wars gave people a definition about human perspective and helped individuals realize that they all have a different mind and different belief that they need to follow. Therefore, there are a couple hundreds of political parties have been created for people to joint in the U.S. Each party has a particular rules and goals that they need to aim. In fact, Republican and Democracy are the two biggest parties in this country. However, there are also many interesting other political party, and one of them is The Canary Party which was establish in the Spring of 2011.

A political party is an organization that sponsors candidates for public office under the organization’s name. A political party platform is a formal set of principal goals which are supported by a political party or individual candidate. Typically, platforms of candidates within their parties are consistent. This is partially because of voter’s tendency to vote with ‘their’ party, and partially because of expectations of candidates. Three political parties in America are Republicans, Democrats, and the Green party. Tax reform, environmental issues, welfare and poverty, and immigration are all issues that different parties view from different angles.

They, along with other old-age interests, however, have had to shift their role to a defensive one.11 The defeat of President Clinton’s health care reform package, which the AARP supported, dealt them a measurable political blow.12 The republican congressional take over of 1994 led to a scaling back of the federal government’s role, including programs designed to benefit seniors. The AARP believes big government to be essential to the welfare of seniors. This view comes in direct conflict with the Republican view stated in the “Contract With America”, that individuals and businesses can make more effective use of funds than the governmental bureaucracy.13 An understanding of this fundamental philosophical distinction provides one with the perspective to understand the AARP’s opposition to the privatization of programs important to seniors. These programs include social security, which the AARP describes as its “number one issue”, and Medicare.14 It also explains their fervent opposition to reductions in the rate of growth of the aforementioned