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IDEOLOIGICAL PARTIES: based on a particular set of beliefs, this party contains a broad view of social, economic, and political beliefs.
SPLINTER PARTIES: a faction or a sect that has been broken away from its parent organization
SINGLE ISSUE PARTIES: pursues a single public interest goal and are characteristically reluctlant to compromise.
ECONOMIC PROTEST PARTIES: this party is based on a particular region that protest against depressed economic times.
MINOR POLITICAL PARTIES
The role of minor parties is to draw attention to issues that are somewhat ignored by the major parties. Also, they help increase voter turn out. Minor parties, also known as third parties, play the spoiler role in elections. When minor or third parties take on a role such as the spoiler, they take votes from a major candidate. If enough votes are taken away from the major candidate, then it costs the candidate the election.
Obstacles that minor parties face as they compete for power are their size. Since they are the MINORITY, most Americans views their votes as a waste due to the fact that there is a very small chance they will win. Because minor parties are less influential, the major parties could take their idea and use it to their advantage. Also, minor parties focus primarily on one issue rather than many issues.
T H E G R E E N P A R T Y
HISTORY During the 1970's the Green Party and Green movement started to form with the Value's Party in New Zealand. Throughout the early years, the combined environmental sensabilities and non-violent anarchism into a philosophy that denied that attraction on single-issue groups. In the early 1980's, the German Greens was the first Green Party to win seats in a national parliament. St. Paul, Minnesota held the first Green meeting in 1984 in the United States where they created the 10 Key Values. In 1990, Alaska was the first state to have an option for the Green Party on the ballot. In 1991, the Green Committees of Correspondence changed into The Greens/Green Party USA. After the 1996 elections, the state Greens created the Association of State Green Parties. In 2000, the ASGP turned into the Green Party of the United States.
When it comes to economic sustainability, the Green Party believes that Americans need to distinguish between need and greed. Also, we have to restore a progressive tax structure, instead of continuously moving money to the high-end of society and squeezing everyone else. The Green Party wants to end the bankrupting military adventurism and majestic designs in order to make a stronger economy. Sicne we are a democracy, The Green Party believes that the citizens MUST have the information and ability necessary to determine the actions of their government. Violence is a major issue in America today, and the Green Party envisions a more non-violent community. They will create effective alternatives to society's currents patterns of violence. When it comes to decentralization, the Green Party finds it necessary to reconstruct political, social, and economic institutions away from a system that is controlled by and benefits the powerful few, to a less bureaucratic system.
PLATFORM The Green Party has 10 key values which serves as a guide to a politics visions and actions.
The Earth in the green flower is the logo for the Green Party.
To better understand how the Green Party was formed, this image helps visualize that process.
This political cartoon shows a lower-class man after being 'squeezed' by taxes because all of the money moves up to the upper-class.
Since the Green Party believes that each citizen must have the information necessary to determine the actions for their government, achieving this goal would be a challenge.
The revolver tied at the end symbolizes non-violence. The Green Party wants to create non-violent communities throughout the United States.
