Political Party Functions and Practices


 * abdicate
 * acclamation
 * adapt
 * affiliation
 * apparat
 * appointment
 * ascendancy
 * back room
 * beadledom
 * bipartisan
 * boodle
 * bossism
 * cloakroom
 * clout
 * coalition
 * corruption
 * cronyism
 * deal
 * declaration
 * doctrine
 * filibuster
 * front
 * frying the fat
 * fusion
 * gerrymandering
 * graft
 * issue
 * jawboning
 * jobbery
 * junket
 * Komsomol
 * logrolling
 * machine
 * movement
 * national committee
 * nepotism
 * party line
 * patronage system
 * policy
 * pork barrel
 * power base
 * pressure group
 * program
 * propaganda
 * proposition
 * prorogue
 * public interest group
 * public opinion poll
 * pull
 * purge
 * roorback
 * seniority
 * smoke-filled room
 * smoking gun
 * special interest group
 * spoils system
 * statecraft
 * statesmanship
 * turn
 * union
 * vest
 * vested interest
 * war chest
 * watchdog function