Political Science 1020E Lecture Notes - Lecture 30: Oligarchy, Social Inequality
15 Oct 2018
School
Department
Course
Professor
Document Summary
Lecture plan: define the political party and identify its role in democracy, explore the main types of party, establish how and why party organization matters. What is a party: a group of people, (a) organized for the purpose of winning governmental power, (b) usually with common ideological orientation, (c) a program covering a wide array of issues (differs from social. Interest articulation and aggregation articulating their positions and: socialization and mobilization parties try to guide us and move us, organization of government bring discipline in order to pass legislation expressing the positions of key constituents. No party can win an election based on one social constituency, they need to draw together different constituencies to win an election through gentle and yet crude manipulations. They want us to get out and support them, etc. them good training to govern us effectively and not poorly for which goals are going to be advanced. Party types: constitutional and revolutionary, left-wing and right-wing.
