Nonpartisan

(noun)

In a nonpartisan system, no official political parties exist, sometimes reflecting legal restrictions on political parties. In nonpartisan elections, each candidate is eligible for office on his or her own merits.

Related Terms

  • Single Dominant Party
  • political party

Examples of Nonpartisan in the following topics:

  • The Rise of Independents

    • In politics, an Independent or nonpartisan politician is an individual not affiliated to any political party.
    • In politics, an independent or nonpartisan politician is an individual not affiliated to any political party.
  • Political Parties and Elections

    • In a nonpartisan system, no official political parties exist, sometimes due to legal restrictions on political parties.
    • In nonpartisan elections, each candidate is eligible for office on his or her own merits.
    • In nonpartisan legislatures, no formal party alignments within the legislature is common.
  • Political Parties

    • In a nonpartisan system, no official political parties exist, sometimes reflecting legal restrictions on political parties.
    • In nonpartisan elections, each candidate is eligible for office on his or her own merits.
    • Unless there are legal prohibitions against political parties, factions within nonpartisan systems often evolve into political parties.
  • Partisan Politics

    • Because this position was based more on social experiences than any political ideology, nonpartisan activity was generally most effective on the local level.
    • These alliances, and the factionalism they engendered, discouraged nonpartisan supporters and undermined the third-party movement by the end of the nineteenth century.
    • Many reformers and nonpartisans subsequently lent support to the Republican Party, which promised to attend to issues important to them, such as anti-slavery or prohibition.
  • Politics in the Gilded Age

    • Because this position was based more on social experiences than any political ideology, nonpartisan activity was generally most effective on the local level.
    • These alliances, and the factionalism they engendered, discouraged nonpartisan supporters and undermined the third-party movement by the end of the nineteenth century.
    • Many reformers and nonpartisans subsequently lent support to the Republican Party, which promised to attend to issues important to them, such as anti-slavery or prohibition.
  • Independent Agencies

    • However, executive agencies have to remain nonpartisan.
  • Bureaucratic Reform

    • They demanded nonpartisan scientific methods and credentials be used to select civil servants.
  • Political Parties from 1800–1824

    • President George Washington, while officially nonpartisan, generally supported the Federalists, and that party made Washington their iconic hero.
  • Corruption and Reform: Hayes to Harrison

    • The Pendleton Civil Service Reform Act in ended the spoils system at the federal level in 1883 and created a bipartisan Civil Service Commission to evaluate job candidates on a nonpartisan merit basis.
  • Voting as Political Participation

    • Rock the Vote (RTV), a nonpartisan youth mobilization organization, established the first online voter registration initiative in 1992 with official backing from the Congressional Internet Caucus.
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