Political Science 2245E Lecture 13: Lecture 13.docx
22 Apr 2015
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Overstated (initial view of parties saw them as self interest and not public interested) (tendency towards oligarchy: parties in the usa have pursued democratic and participatory reforms nominating primaries and caucuses from machine politics, efforts elsewhere to popularize leadership selection influenced by, party losing under existing arrangements, general concern over decline of party through decline of old cleavages and incomplete emergence of new ones also responsible (old parties structured on social cleavages or class systems now looking for new ways to remain relevant in society) (parties use to provide you with all your info but now we get it from new, etc. ) (parties losing power) Party systems: a relatively stable pattern of relationships amongst parties, as structured by their, only of value if systematic features, relationships and interactions, actually, number, size (tend to exclude smaller parties) (influences number, ideological orientation (degree of polarization) (ex.
