platform

Examples of platform in the following topics:

• Coordinating and Promoting Party Policy

  • These organizations are responsible for developing and promoting party platforms, which express the types of views each party embraces.
  • While the planks of platforms do not all necessarily become policies, they can lead to highly politicized debates between parties that become party policy stances.
  • The DNC and RNC coordinate party policy during the Democratic and Republican National Conventions where party platforms are adopted.
  • While relatively little of the party platform is adopted as public policy, the platforms often become politicized because they are more ideological than pragmatic.

• Uniting Competing Factions Within the Party

  • Parties unite these disparate viewpoints by developing party platforms that outline party positions on issues and the actions leaders will take to implement them if elected.
  • These platforms frequently adopt middle-of-the-road positions to encompass the interests of a diverse range of supporters.
  • Most of the language used in party platforms is generic to appeal to a wide audience while other sections are narrowly written to appeal to certain factions or interest groups in the party.
  • Platforms are created during presidential nominating conventions where delegates have an opportunity to vote on salient issues.
  • Platforms created during presidential nominating conventions unite diverse factions within a party by adopting middle-of-the-road positions on issues and addressing special interest groups in some sections.

• The National Convention

  • Political parties hold national conventions to nominate candidates for the presidency and to decide on a platform.
  • Each convention produces a statement of principles known as its platform, containing goals and proposals known as planks.
  • Relatively little of a party platform is even proposed as public policy.
  • Unlike electoral manifestos in many European countries, the platform is not binding on either the party or the candidate.
  • Because it is ideological rather than pragmatic, however, the platform is sometimes itself politicized.

• Likeability of Political Candidates

  • In large part, this association is supported by political parties' platforms in the U.S.
  • At the same national convention where parties nominate candidates for president, they formalize a platform enumerating party beliefs and objectives.
  • When a candidate for state or national office affiliates with a party, they are therefore associated with that party's written platform.

• The Democratic Party

  • The Democratic Party is a major political party in the US which promotes a social liberal, social democratic and progressive platform.
  • Since the 1930s, the party has promoted a social liberal, social democratic and progressive platform, and its Congressional caucus is composed of progressives, liberals, centrists, and left-libertarians.
  • Some of the party's key issues in the early 21st century in their last national platform have included the methods of how to combat terrorism, homeland security, expanding access to health care, labor rights, environmentalism, and the preservation of liberal government programs.

• The Republican Party

  • The Republican Party is a major political party in the U.S, along with the Democratic Party; its platform reflects American conservatism.
  • Currently the party's platform generally reflects American conservatism in the U.S. political spectrum.
  • The party controlled the presidency throughout the 1920s, running on a platform of opposition to the League of Nations, high tariffs, and promotion of business interests.

• Red States vs. Blue States

  • The Republican and Democratic Parties within a given state may have platforms that depart from national party platforms.

• Nominating Candidates

  • Political parties are organizations that subscribe to a certain ideology, articulated in the party's platform, and that seek to attain political power through representation in government.
  • The official purpose of these conventions is to select the party's nominee for president, as well as to adopt a statement of party principles and goals, known as the platform.

• National Convention

  • The formal purpose of such a convention is to select the party's nominee for President, as well as to adopt a statement of party principles and goals known as the platform and adopt the rules for the party's activities, including the presidential nominating process for the next election cycle .
  • Each convention produces a statement of principles known as its platform, containing goals and proposals known as planks.
  • Relatively little of a party platform is even proposed as public policy.

• Hosting Conventions

  • The conventions develop a statement of party principles and goals known as a party platform.