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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

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