Lesson 5.5: Third Parties
Enduring Understanding:
Political parties, interest groups, and social movements provide opportunities for participation and influence how people relate to government and policy-makers.
Learning Objectives:
Explain how structural barriers impact third-party and independent candidate success.
Essential Knowledge:
In comparison to proportional systems, winner-take-all voting districts serve as a structural barrier to third-party and independent candidate success.
The incorporation of third-party agendas into platforms of major political parties serves as a barrier to third-party and independent candidate success.
Debrief 5.3: Unit One Review
In your notebooks, use ASAP (Author Setting Audience Purpose) to analyze the following excerpt...
Congress shall have the power to... regulate Commerce with foreign Nations, and among the several States, and with the Indian Tribes; and to make all Laws which shall be necessary and proper for carrying into Execution the foregoing Powers, and all other Powers vested by this Constitution in the Government of the United States, or in any Department or Officer thereof.
- Article 1 Section 8 of the US Constitution (abridged)
Then, answer the following question, How did the Supreme Court case of U.S. vs. Lopez change our understanding of this passage?
Activity #1: Crashing the Party: Third Party Politics...
At your groups, answer the following questions in your separate tables...
- What is a Third Party, what are some examples of Third Parties?
- What are some the Green and Libertarian Parties' major platform pieces?
- What is the "winner take all system" and how does it act as a barrier for third-parties winning elections?
- How do Third Parties impact Democrats and Republics (influencing platforms, playing the spoiler)
Group write...
Activity #2: Interest Groups
Interest groups may represent very specific or more general interests, and can educate voters and office holders, conduct lobbying, draft legislation, and mobilize membership to apply pressure on and work with legislators and government agencies.
In addition to working within party coalitions, interest groups exert influence through long-standing relationships with bureaucratic agencies, congressional committees, and other interest groups; such relationships are described as “iron triangles” and “issue networks,” and they help interest groups exert influence across political party coalitions.
Activity #3: Nifty Fifty Vocabulary:
Long Definition, Short Definition, Example...
- Interest Group
- Lobbying
- Free Rider (as it relates to interest groups)
- Iron Triangle
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