A party platform, also known as a manifesto, is a list of the actions 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.
Famous party platforms
- Friedrich Engels' and Karl Marx's 1848 Communist Manifesto
- 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
See also
1912 U.S. Progressive Party platform- Election promise
- Government platform
- List of democracy and elections-related topics
- Mandate (politics)
- Multi-tendency
- Party line (politics)
External links
- Platforms of U.S. political parties, 1840-present from the American Presidency Project at the University of California, Santa Barbara
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