party activist

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meaningsofpartyandactivist

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party
noun
uk
/ˈpɑː.ti/
us
/ˈpɑːr.t̬i/
a social event at which a group of people meet to talk, eat, drink, dance, etc., often in order to celebrate a ...
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activist
noun[C]
uk
/ˈæk.tɪ.vɪst/
us
/ˈæk.tə.vɪst/
a person who believes strongly in political or social change and takes part in activities such as public protests to try to make ...
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(Definition ofpartyandactivistfrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)

Examplesofparty activist

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Party activists tend to be ideologically polarized and more willing to provide campaign resources to candidates who share their preferences, but voters reward centrist candidates.
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In other words, electoral success increases support for policy goals among party activists.
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Although many of these ' natural leaders ' are not full time party activists, almost all of them maintain ties - through friends, neighbours, or relatives - to informal party networks.
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In addition, candidates find it difficult to adopt maximally appealing ideological positions because many of them begin their careers as activists or with the help of party activists.
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When candidates deviate from positions preferred by activists to gain more votes, they lose support from party activists and this loss costs them with voters as well.
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These results suggest that, contrary to the views of many political scientists and party activists, there is no single optimal strategy through which parties out of power can regain it.
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During this period, a new brand ofpartyactivistjoined the party in large numbers.
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It instead relies on the more empirically warranted assumptions that (1) candidates are constrained by their parties and (2) thepartyactivistpositions are not identical.
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He is apartyactivist.
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In retirement, he continued as apartyactivist, on a voluntary basis.
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Candidates can sway citizens' voting decisions by using resources provided by party activists or the resources of incumbency.
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Quotas have also remained a key concern for female party activists on the centre\\left.
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For example, party activists played a major role in the delivery of social assistance in lower income neighbourhoods.
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A successful campaign depends heavily on candidate resources, which mainly come from party activists who provide and allocate electoral resources.
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Unlike market transactions where producers fund their advertising costs, however, politicians primarily depend on party activists who provide them with financial and human resources.
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The second type is policy-motivated party activists or amateurs.
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The increasing demand for party organisers in the 1920s made it absolutely necessary that party activists should be taught the essentials of organisation and propaganda.
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This immobility forces candidates to face the trade-off between appealing to voters and appealing to party activists squarely.
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These were not ' token ' representatives of women, but hard-core party activists who had made it up through the ranks.
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Reorganized and motivated the grassroots party activists.
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This tax, levied on owner-occupiers on the imputed value of the rent they did not have to pay, had been attacked by party activists since the late 1940s.
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