Party platform

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A party platform, also known as a manifesto, is a list of the principles which a political party supports in order to appeal to the general public for the purpose of having said party's candidates voted into office. This often takes the form of a list of support for, or opposition to, controversial topics. Individual topics are often called planks of the platform.

[edit] Famous party platforms

• Franklin Roosevelt's 1932 New Deal
• The 1948 United States Democratic Party's platform including civil rights
• Lyndon Baines Johnson's War on Poverty, 1965
• The 1993 Liberal Party of Canada Red Book
• The 1994 United States Republican Party's Contract with America (technically not a platform because promising discussion of measures rather than their adoption)
• Mike Harris's 1995 Common Sense Revolution
• Democratic Party 100 Hours, first weeks of 110th United States Congress

[edit] See also

• List of democracy and elections-related topics
• Election promise

[edit] External links

• Platforms of U.S. political parties, 1840-present from the American Presidency Project at the University of California, Santa Barbara