POL218Y5 Lecture Notes - Lecture 8: Morrill Tariff, Life Tenure, 6 Years
23 Mar 2017
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Party: electoral system, electoral college very undemocratic, terms of 2, 4, 6 years, incredibly complex ballots hanging chads" (2000, state controls registration, voting, electoral boundaries. Cabinet and bureaucracy: cabinet consists of chief officers of departments, bureaucracy formally part of executive but must be responsive to. Congress: congress approves budget and provides financial oversight. Interest groups create relationships with the same interests that bureaucracy should be regulating. Antinomies of the american state: u. s. remains an enigma, weak state internally, strong state externally, fragmentation and dispersion of power and authority, excessive number of veto points in legislature. Pol218 lecture 8 november 2, 2016: gore v. dahl on burr, hbu/pbs series on john adams, the level of polarization in us politics net seen since the early united. Notions of critical junctures + turning points: see barnam reading on the portals, every 20-25 years there is a critical alignment of the parties that changes this base entirely, republicans lincolnians roosevelt nixon/regan .
