govt. theory
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- coalitions that are organized formally, that cooperate to acheive shared political goals
- parties
- Party in the Electorate Party as an Organization Party in Government
- Levels of Parties
- Party I.D. (gives cues on how to vote) Committees
- Parties in Government
- They build coalitions Public policy Win elections Organize government (committee assignments-party voting)
- What parties do
- Federalist Jeffersonians or Democratic republicans Caucus
- 1790-1824
- Whigs Democrats Slavery
- 1824-1860
- Republicans Democrats Industrialization
- 1860-1896
- Republicans Democrats Great Depression
- 1896-1932
- Republicans Democrats
- 1932-?
- the U.S. is more likely to take responsibiley for their own economic failure
- Hoschild's arguement as to why we dont have a socialist party in america
- occurs when a large segment of the population that traditionally supported one party shifts their support to another party
- Realignment
- refers to a general decreased attractiveness of political parties
- De-alignment
- americans are ideologically similiar
- reasons why the U.S. has 2 parties
- organized bodies of individuals who share some goals and try to influence policy
- interest group
- narrow in focus change policy
- interest group goals
- broad based in focus wins elections
- parties goals
- sense of legitimacy a group gives to its members and to the rest of society
- symbolic functions
- most interest groups promote the economic interests of most members
- economic functions
- tell the members how to think
- ideological functions
- provides info. to everyone (congress-society-members)
- informational functions
- main goal of an interest group that is non economic
- instrumental functions
- Symbolic Economic Ideological Informational Instrumental
- functions of interest groups
- when a person sits in a lobby and waits on a congress member to pass to persuade him to vote for what u want
- lobbying
- Booze Broads Bribes
- 3 B's
- Obtaining face to face meetings Testify at Hearings Offering Honoariums Fact Finding Missions Going Public
- Important tactics
- democrats that were conservative coalition in the democratic party
- blue dog democrats
- a person who would rather vote for a yellow dog than a republican
- yellow dog democrats
- 1950
- shivercrat movement
- 1920
- presidential republicanism
- 1961
- republican wins state wide (John Tower) U.S. Senate
- 1978
- William Clements (govenor)
- 50$
- limit on donations anything over that a candidate has to report it
- created the limits of $5,000 per individual per election
- Judicial/Campaign Fairness Act (1995)
- every candidate has to report over $50 to the election code
- Texas election code