POLSC-121 Lecture Notes - Lecture 15: Party System, Tactical Voting, Social Liberalism
19 May 2019
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Political parties: describe and distinguish major and minor political parties. Identify history and contemporary trends in party affiliation. Evaluate the systemic and cultural reasons for america"s two party system: recall the policy beliefs, voting coalitions, and basic ideology of democrats and republicans. 2: they might be able to get their people to be elected as the state legislature, more ideology extreme, hard time winning elections, ex: green and libertarian political parties. Only one member is elected to represent a congressional district so candidate with the broadest support (most votes) wins. In order for someone to win, they need to have broad support; you get broad support by being a member of that two major political parties: minor party candidates can (almost) never get enough support to win. Encourages strategic voting people know minor party candidate won"t win so they vote for major party candidate who is more likely to win. Compare to proportional representation: lack of demographic cleavage.
