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
- 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
[edit] See also
- List of democracy and elections-related topics
- Election promise
- Wicracy: a mechanism for creation of party platforms by the party members themselves rather than the party leaders
