POLI 346 Lecture 4: POLI 346 September 12
17 Aug 2015
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The tariff before 1914: interests, parties and policy. Want trade to be in your favor: not thinking about societal actors, but the state is most important and will engage society, but independently, applied to security side, analytical liberalism, domestic interests are divided. What we should do is start at bottom (start with individuals)- need to discuss fp, need to look at what the individual thinks: groups organize to compete for control of government. People break up and try to decide what is best from state: state societal actors are servants to this system in a way, winner gets its preferred policy, applied to ipe side. Distribution of interests within the us interests concentrated geographically: sectionalism - used to be referred to. Institutional pressures for a two party system (fptp, not pr: first past- the post. The person who wins in electoral districts (person who gets position) Don"t need to win the majority- just more than others.
