Describe the various kinds of minor parties and what their focus has been. Provide examples

What will be an ideal response?

An ideal response will:
1, Define protest parties as those that sometimes arise as part of a social movement; an example is the Green Party, which was an offshoot of the environmental and antiglobalization movements.
2, Explain that ideological parties are organized around coherent sets of ideas; examples are the Libertarian Party and the Green Party.
3, Discuss how single-issue parties are very similar to advocacy groups except that they run candidates for office; an example is Ross Perot's Reform Party in 1996.
4, Identify splinter parties as those that form when a faction in one of the two major parties decides to run its own candidates; an example is the Bull Moose Progressive Party of Teddy Roosevelt that formed after Roosevelt split from the Republican Party in 1912.