Charactertics and Functions of American Political Parties

Posted: January 6th, 2014

Describe the characteristics and functions of American political parties.
◦Explain the relationship between the national political parties and the state political parties.
◦Review the Texas Democratic Party platform and the Texas Republican Party platform and explain the differences.
◦Compare each state party platform to its national party platform counterpart and explain the differences between the national and state party platforms.
◦Why do you believe differences would exist between the national and state party platforms?