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С.И. Жолобов

Краткий тематический словарь

Выборы и опрос общественного мнения

Учебное пособие

для студентов университетов

Нижний Новгород 20

Жолобов С.И. Краткий тематический словарь. Политическая власть и политики: Учебное пособие для студентов университетов. – Нижний Новгород: НГЛУ им. Н. А. Добролюбова, 20 . – 65 с.

Настоящая работа представляет собой лексический справочник по темам, изучаемым студентами на пятом курсе. Соответствующий словарный состав сгруппирован на основе тематического принципа. Каждая лексическая единица снабжена толкованием, переводом, иллюстративными примерами ее употребления в речи, а также минимально необходимой грамматической и стилистической информацией. Кроме того, в учебное пособие включены разнообразные упражнения, которые должны помочь студентам усвоить изучаемый ими словарный материал.

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Contents

Nomination…….............................................................. Election………................................................................ Voting…………………………………………………………… Electioneering……………………………….………….……… Influencing voters……………………………………………… Polling……………………..……………………..…………….	4 7 19 29 36 41
Vocabulary practice Sections: Nomination, Election….…………………….…... Section: Voting…………………..…..………………………. Section: Electioneering.................................................. Sections: Influencing voters, Polling………………………	44 50 55 60

1. Nomination

1. to nominate [transitive] to officially suggest someone for an election, job, position or honour выставлять / выдвигать / предлагать кандидата (для участия в выборах / на должность)

to nominate sb: Under party rules each candidate has to be nominated by 55 Labour MPs.

to nominate sb for sth: They nominated him for the presidency. | By now it was clear that Bush was going to be nominated for President. | The Democrats nominated Andrew Jackson for a second term.

to nominate sb as sth: He's been nominated by the Green Party as their candidate in the next election.

to nominate sb to do sth: Lee was the first Chinese American nominated to head the Civil Rights Division. | I nominate John to represent us at the meeting.

2. nomination [uncountable; countable] the act of officially suggesting someone for an election, job, position or honour выдвижение / предложение кандидата (для участия в выборах / для назначения на должность); номинация: The Bush network is looming large in the race for the nomination.

presidential / vice presidential nomination | nomination for (the post of / office of) president / vice president / the presidency / prime minister / the premiership / governor выдвижение на пост президента / вице-президента / премьер-министра / губернатора: Gore had lost his bid for the Democratic presidential nomination in 1988. | Who will get the Republican nomination for president?

to seek the nomination | to campaign for the nomination бороться за выдвижение в качестве кандидата: Powell announced he would not seek the Republican nomination. | Dole campaigned for the Republican presidential nomination.

to get / win / gain / earn (sb) / obtain / secure / capture the nomination (for sth) добиться выдвижения в качестве кандидата: He got / won / earned / obtained the presidential nomination. | A candidate needs 996 delegates to win the Republican presidential nomination. | Governor Clinton struggled to gain the Democratic nomination. | The Senate majority leader already holds more than one-third of the delegates needed to secure the Republican presidential nomination.

to accept the nomination согласиться / дать согласие на выдвижение в качестве кандидата: Clinton will accept the Democratic nomination for a second term.

to approve / confirm one's nomination утверждать выдвижение кандидата: All the committee's nominations were approved. | The Senate Tuesday confirmed his nomination by 100-0.

to lose the nomination (to sb) проиграть борьбу за выдвижение в качестве кандидата: By alienating his natural backers, Rockefeller lost the 1964 nomination to Goldwater.

to withdraw one's nomination снять свою кандидатуру: He withdrew his nomination less than twelve hours later.

3. candidate | nominee [countable] someone who has been suggested or being considered for an election, job, position or honour кандидат (выдвинутый на выборах / предложенный на должность); претендент; соискатель; кандидатура: One candidate must receive a majority of the vote. | The Democratic nominee was more specific on the issue of illegal immigration.

successful / victorious candidate избранный / победивший кандидат

defeated / unsuccessful candidate проигравший кандидат

party candidate кандидат от какой-л. партии

candidate / nominee for election кандидат на выборах

presidential / vice presidential / parliamentary candidate / nominee | candidate / nominee for (the post / office of) president / vice president / the presidency / prime minister / the premiership / governor кандидат на должность президента / вице-президента / премьер-министра / губернатора / в парламент: He is a candidate for the office of Governor. | He is mentioned as a possible vice presidential nominee for 1996.

Conservative / Tory / Labour / Liberal / Liberal Democrat / Democratic / Republican candidate / nominee кандидат от Консервативной / Лейбористской / Либеральной / Либерально-демократической / Демократической / Республиканской партии: I made my mark against the Conservative candidate. | The Democratic candidate is still leading in the polls.

independent candidate / nominee независимый кандидат: Independent presidential candidates would be able to stand. | He gained 19 percent of the vote as an independent presidential candidate in 1992.

to elect / choose / select / pick a candidate / nominee | to choose / select sb as one's candidate / nominee: In order to be elected, a constituency candidate needs only a plurality of the votes cast. | In the 1975 election voters chose four independent candidates for the council. | He might have been selected as a Conservative candidate. | John Taylor was selected as a Tory candidate.

to approve / endorse a candidate / nominee утвердить / поддержать / одобрить кандидатуру: And it is partly because of the way in which cabinet nominees are approved.

to offer / announce / declare oneself as a candidate выдвинуть / выставить / предложить свою кандидатуру; зарегистрироваться в качестве кандидата: He did not offer himself as a candidate in the approaching elections. | Anybody who wants to be an MP must declare himself or herself as a candidate in one of these constituencies.

4. to put up | to put forward | to field | to go to the polls [transitive; intransitive] to suggest someone or oneself as a suitable candidate to take part in an election выставлять / выдвигать чью-л. / свою кандидатуру на выборах, предлагать кого-л. в качестве кандидата, баллотироваться

to put up / put forward / field a candidate (for sth): Each party is allowed to put up one candidate. | Several people have been put forward for the chairmanship. | It fielded four candidates who averaged just under 10 percent where they stood.

to put sb / oneself up / forward (as a candidate) (for sth): I was put up for the committee. | They are putting him up as a candidate in the next elections. | Do you intend to put yourself up (for the empty seat in the House)? | Is Chris willing to be put up for election? | She has decided to put herself forward as a candidate.

to put up for sth / as a candidate Do you really intend to put up for that seat? | He put up as a candidate.

to go to the polls: In June 1983, Margaret Thatcher went to the polls for the second time.

5. candidacy | candidature (esp. BrE) [uncountable; countable] the fact that someone is a candidate in an election кандидатура; кандидат: The local party supported her candidacy for the post of chairman.

presidential / parliamentary candidacy | candidacy for (the post of / office of) president / the presidency кандидатура на пост президента / в парламент: Gore assiduously cultivated his eventual presidential candidacy.

to announce / declare / file one's candidacy (for election) выдвинуть / выставить / предложить свою кандидатуру; зарегистрироваться в качестве кандидата: He has officially announced his candidacy for the presidential election. | He has declared his candidacy for the post.

to withdraw one's candidacy | to send in one's withdrawal from the candidacy снимать свою кандидатуру: She later withdrew her candidacy.

to approve / endorse one's candidacy утвердить / поддержать / одобрить кандидатуру: He endorsed the presidential candidacy of Ronald Reagan.

6. opponent [countable] someone who is competing against you and who belongs to a different party or who have different aims or policies противник, оппонент: a political opponent | a leading / main / chief opponent | He is admired even by his political opponents. | During the primary elections, McCain was Bush's leading opponent. | Reed is an outspoken opponent of the death penalty.