reform party
Political change movement
A reform party is a political party organized around changing existing institutions or policies rather than revolutionary transformation.
Reform parties typically emerge when voters feel established parties have failed to address specific issues—corruption, economic policy, or electoral systems.
The term describes various historical and contemporary parties across different countries: The Reform Party fielded candidates in local elections. (Capitalized Reform Party refers to specific parties by that name.)
- populistAdvocate for ordinary citizens
- ballotVoting document
- grassrootsCommon people as political base
- insurgentOne who revolts
- outsiderOne excluded from group
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reform partyruling party
Faction currently holding power
major party · party machine · political machine · power brokers · the powers that be
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