campaigners
People seeking change
Campaigners are people who work actively to bring about political or social change.
The term implies sustained effort rather than casual support—campaigners organize, advocate, and mobilize others around a cause: Campaigners gathered signatures for the ballot initiative.
The word applies equally to those seeking electoral victories and those pushing for broader reforms: anti-war campaigners, campaigners for voting rights.
Public expression of disapproval
- rallyGathering for a cause
- demonstrationPublic display of opinion
- marchRhythmic group walk
- boycottOrganized economic protest
sit-in · vigil · petition · grassroots · civil disobedience · nonviolent resistance · picket · banner
To make different
- improvementPositive change in quality
- overhaulComplete systematic repair
- progressMovement toward improvement
- transformationThorough change in form
modernization · amendment · advocacy · petition · awareness · justice · rights · policy change
Those seeking selection
- ballotsVoting forms
- canvassingSystematic direct voter outreach
- constituentsParts of a whole
- debatesFormal argumentative exchanges
electorate · incumbent · nominee · platform · polling · primaries · registration · stump
protest
Public expression of disapproval
- rallyGathering for a cause
- demonstrationPublic display of opinion
- marchRhythmic group walk
boycott · sit-in · vigil · petition · grassroots · civil disobedience · nonviolent resistance · picket · banner · placard
change
To make different
- improvementPositive change in quality
- overhaulComplete systematic repair
- progressMovement toward improvement
transformation · modernization · amendment · advocacy · petition · awareness · justice · rights · policy change · social change
candidates
Those seeking selection
- ballotsVoting forms
- canvassingSystematic direct voter outreach
- constituentsParts of a whole
debates · electorate · incumbent · nominee · platform · polling · primaries · registration · stump · turnout
legislation
Official enactment of statutes
- parliamentNational legislative assembly
- senateLegislative governing body
- policyAdopted principle of action
pressure · coalition · influence · hearing · committee · regulation · amendment · testimony · interests · negotiation
- political organizerscommunity organizers, grassroots leaders, mobilizers, canvassers, volunteer coordinators
- reformersreformers, reformer, social reformers, social reformer, political reformer
- Political Groupsfaction, Republican Party, caucus, Democratic Party, wing
- peoplepeople, persons, person, individuals, humans
- historical womenCleopatra, Joan of Arc, Queen Elizabeth I, Queen Victoria, Marie Curie
- educatorseducator, teacher, teachers, professor, instructor
campaignersbystanders
People present but uninvolved
spectators · onlookers · observers · fence-sitters · do-nothings
campaignersopponents
Those who compete against
obstructionists · reactionaries · resisters · incumbents · traditionalists