PSCI 3325 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: First Amendment To The United States Constitution, Rulemaking
18 Oct 2016
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Partisanship: congress has the least trust from people, significantly low, the president is more split with the parties. Judicial branch has the highest: affects everything. Reelection incentives: you are more willing to vote on something if the people are going to trust congress, how am i going to defend this when people don"t trust congress. Not going to support an innovative policy or plan. People don"t have a good impression of congress because they serve the elites, lobbyists and special interests, and reelection incentive. Pluralism argues there"s nothing wrong with interest groups, open competition will allow them to act as intermediaries and influence policy: mobilizing votes. Not general public opinion but mobilize people in their group and support them, influence congress to do something that congress doesn"t want to do and change their mind about the policy. Interest groups can"t do much with mobilizing votes so they are involved with campaign contributions: first amendment and campaign finance.
