POLITICAL PARTIES
FUNCTIONS OF THE PARTY Nominating Candidates Structuring the Voting Choice Proposing Alternative Government Programs Coordinating the Actions of Government Officials
THE PARTY SYSTEMS The Pre-Party Period The First Party System: The Founding Federalists and Jeffersonian Republicans (1796-1824) 1800 The Second Party System: Jackson Democrats and Whigs (1828-1852) 1828 The Third Party System: Sectionalism and the Civil War Democrats and Republicans (1852-Present) 1860 1896 1932
CURRENT PARTY STRUCTURE
MINOR PARTIES/THIRD PARTIES