political parties

In an alternate history where the Philippines is integrated into the United States instead of gaining independence, would Ferdinand Marcos be a Democrat or a Republican? Could it be he becomes a Democrat and stays a Democrat, or he's a Democrat and later becomes a Republican, etc.?

The people of the Confederacy saw political parties as an evil Yankee thing, so they never formed in its short existence. The south was pretty politically unified on most issues at the time, so I was wondering what Political Parties formed could be like. I feel like the biggest issue would be...

Franklin D. Roosevelt and Wendell Willkie, once political rivals, became close collaborators during World War II. They toyed with the idea of forming a liberal political party after the war, but both of them died before they were able to do so. What if they had lived and formed the party?

So the challenge, inspired by these two excellent examples (all credit to @Wolfram and @TheNixonator , respectively), is to create an alternate political party system for a country using obscure, defunct or marginal political parties or factions that existed in that country historically...

Ahh, the People's Party. While successful in the short time they existed, they never really expanded their base of support beyond their rural core, and were later swallowed up by the Democrats. What I wonder is what if the Populists managed to survive and gain the support of organized labor and...

The two-party system has been a very constant facet of American politics; for the majority of US history and into the present day, the two main political parties have been the Democratic and Republican Parties. However, their political coalitions and party platforms have shifted many times, most...

Could you please tell me the names of the persons in america that first made tipping legal and then later also promoted it into the 1900s?, maybe you know what political parties they belonged to as well?.

Niek Koning writes that In the late 1850s, many farmers joined the new Republican party, which promised free soil and the exclusion of slavery from the new terriories. After the victory of the Union, however, the new party revealed itself as a tool of northeastern business interests, imposing...

Niek Koning writes that In the late 1850s, many farmers joined the new Republican party, which promised free soil and the exclusion of slavery from the new terriories. After the victory of the Union, however, the new party revealed itself as a tool of northeastern business interests, imposing...

The People’s Party is probably the most successful third party in American history that never overtook one of the major parties. The Populists, as they were often called, never won the presidency but managed to form a fusion ticket with the Democrats and in many ways were harbingers of the...

There are a lot of third party America TLs, but I've never seen this topic explored. Basically, America develops a 2.5 party system, with the two major parties being a conservative one and a leftist one, and there is a third party which doesn't win elections, but does decently in elections and...

Hello friends. As I said, I'm doing an AH and watching the political parties of OTL. I thought that other animals could have taken the place of the Elephant and the Donkey of the Republican and Democratic Party. But to be clear, Which animals would Have Been the symbol of These parties (the...

As I've seen noted many times on this site, the Democratic and Republican parties in the United States are unusual, globally speaking. - First, they are extremely broad-tent organizations with little central control over state or local branches, and efforts to adhere to a nationwide platform...

What it says on the tin. Today, America (like most developed nations) has a (fairly) healthy multi-party system, with the centrist/"classically liberal" GOP, the center-left Progressives, the far-right (though they deny it up and down) Liberty Party, the "big tent" populist Reform Party, to...

I'm very interested in the period. I want to research it further and speculate about developments for the sake of a timeline I've been slowly preparing. I intend this thread to be a broader discussion on the OTL direction of Hungarian parliamentary politics in the late 19th century (as a...

The US had the Federalists (strong union) and the Antifederalists (who advocated for states' rights and a weak union). WI there was a centralist party wanting to abolish the different states and establish a centralist states like France with its départements? Would this have been possible in...