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responsible party government alternative
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• - if its an issue that's really controversial - if supporters in parliament don't agree -prime minister says this votes count, he says if you don't vote he will abolish parliament / you'll have to run for relection - you get the party in the legislature being responsible to
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purple
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colors that represent each party - red: rep - blue: demo - purple: mixed - surbuban areas are?
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coalition government
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Israel / Britian -
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minority parties today
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Important issues argue a minor point - gradually get attention and support by endorsing a particular issue - major party then adopts that particular issue - to keep certain positions or concerns alive - can determine outcomes in some cases- case of ralph nader running for election of george bush where they lost the popular vote to Gore but won in the S.Court, therefor in the Electoral College -nador took enough votes - Gore would have won the electoral college
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fragmentation - framing
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more reason than actuality - rapid use: increasing use of ______
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chief of state / head of government
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roles of the president:
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parliamentary system
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you vote for a party, it gets a maj. In parliament it elects head of the country, everybody knows what its going to do, prime minister presents legislation for parliament for passage, if its an issue that really controversial & # of supporters don't agree, the p.minister says this is a vote that really counts, we lose this vote I'm abolishing parliament, new elections, p.minister makes an issue , says this is so imp. Or you'll have to run for relelction - normally in this sytem the members of p.minister's party vote with him and legislation passes
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multiparty system with proportional representation
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55% of republican votes = 55 republican seat
45% of democratic votes: 45 democrat seats
10% independent votes: 10 seats given
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fragmentation
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appearance vs. actuality
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homogeneity
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more moderates in parties / centralized beliefs - parties are less adapted from extremes / opposites on either side
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party "enforcement" in House
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- republicans under Tom "the hammer" Delay as majority leader - republicans under Obama - esp. in Senate (stimulus bill; healthcare) - future of congressional partisanship
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proportional representation
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members of congress are elected from specific geoph. districts (US)
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multiparty system with proportional representation
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reason / system under which Adolph Hitler rose to power over Germany
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responsible party government alternative
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you vote for party who then elects its head of the country from that party
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women - ethnic minorities - party "enforcement" in House - remaking the parties
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signs of life in 2 party systems: - reaching out to ______ - reaching out to ________ - __________ - ____________
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US
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___ doesn not have responsible party government alt. or multiparty systems with prop. rep.
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quaram
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problem for republicans trying to pass the anti-union bill in Wisconsin, they needed to have a _____ where 1 democrat votes on the bill but they didn't b/c all of them fled to Illinois (fragmentation)
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how are the parties divided?
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(unity v. fragmentation) the last 2 yrs republicans basically voted against everything Obama / Democrats proposed-
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tea party movement
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... suggests to remove labels whether food is safe or not - they are amateurs to gov - probably won't get reelected - much harder to follow thru on pledges to cut gov. by enormous % - like bill to cut 60 bil on federal budget for rest of this yr - never going to happen - basically b/c people want most of the programs or special interests want it- rebuplican leadership has a hard time controlling is more extreme members
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house in more or less homogeneous than senate? (b.c house has newly elected Tea Party - extremists)
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ideological purity - minor parties -
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responsible representation:
pros:
cons: more_______ -
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proposed reforms
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party realignment - responsible party gov. alt. - multiparty system w/ proportional representation: considerations
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divergence
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strategy used when candidates emphasize being more conservative or liberal
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multiparty system with proportional representation
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- in our system members of congress are elected from spec. geographical districts, your voting for a particular person in those cases
- you vote for a party - then each party makes a list of all the people it wants to have in legislature, then they figure out which votes went to democratic / republic / tea party ,ect each party # of representatives = to % of vote it got
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yellow dog
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always vote democrat no matter what
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tend to foster shaky governments
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multiparty systems with p.r - - b./c if you have country like the US a huge role in the world economy - and its constantly shifting it would be hard for other countires to know what to exp. so it wouldn't work
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party realignment - responsible - proportional representation
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proposed reforms: ________: could 2010 turn out to have been a ______ election?
- ________
- multiparty system w/ ________: considerations
- increases variety of views
- limited regional and local representation
- tends to foster shaky governments
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dealignment
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people are removing themselves with political parties
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responsible party government alternative
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if candidates are elected they pledge of platform they are running on - candidates run on a particular platform, if elected they pledge to vote that way and they do - you know what you're voting for - the only way you make this work is on a parliamentary system
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loss of control of election campaigns
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major reason why parties are much weaker - now big corporations can unlimitedly fund elections due to recent Supreme Court approval
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parliament
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you vote for party, the party that gets the most votes elects its candidates for office
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many women as men
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reaching out to women: democrats adopted rules in democratic conventions you have to have delegates as same % as electorate (just as ___________ opened up possibility for women in the democratic party
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when parties lose elections
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michael steele was apt. by republincs as their black obama - in the video ____________
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multiparty system with proportional representation
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party homogeneity/ ideology - TX representative might be from LA / NY
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multiparty system with proportional representation
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- increases variety of views
- limits regional and local representation
- tends to foster shaky governments
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- dealignment - independents - nominating process & election campaigns
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signs of failure in 2 party systems -longterm decreasing party identification- "_________" - more ____________ now (new data )- and the question of the recent election
-loss of control of ____________________
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candidates increasingly wanted to run their own campaigns
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what is one of the reasons for dealignment?
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convergence
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strategy used in the general election to get the popular vote
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coherent
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when neither party has a ______ policy, it b/comes really challenging to keep the party in office, in the last 2 yrs, republicans were more _____
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fragmentation
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the increase reliance on "framing" and "politics of langugae" - remember Luntz vs. Lakoff videos
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parliamentary system
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like a sea sea of running government - if people get tired of current officials they all get voted out and new ones get put in and it goes back and forth - BIG SWINGS -most like what?
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primaries v. general elections
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differences btw primary voters, caucus-goers, convention delegates, and the American population
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primary elections
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movement toward democratizing the nominating process
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no, but in congress's last 2 yrs, yes
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is the republican coalition more homogenuous than the democrat?
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strong anti-immigration laws
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reaching out to ethnic minorities: democrats have reached out more - republicans have recently adopted ____________ -
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in congress, parties are more homogenous, democrats have tended to win re-elections in the past from more liberal districts / states and conservatives from conservative districts / states. Now more moderates in both parties, result in congress more homoge
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how fragmented is each party?
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uncertain
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the future of congressional partisanship is ....
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multiparty system
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must have coalitions among various groups to control the majority
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getting the nomination - general elections
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what happens in a political campaign?
- ___________: more one view or the other (left or right) so if your democrat, you sight more left-wing views
- ___________: more moderate views to reach the popular vote
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