POS-3122 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Progressive Era, Geostationary Operational Environmental Satellite, Popular Referendum
21 Mar 2018
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Paradox: despite the fact that state and local governments are closer to the people, more. Forms of political participation: participation bias- participation is not randomly distributed. Voting: the voting population tends to over represent the wealthy/affluent, people with higher education, etc, question: why is this, often incentives to vote come with home ownership. Other activities: larger participation gap with other forms of participation, many aspects of state and local government require open public meetings that provide for public comment, city and county councils, school board meeting, other public hearings. Interest groups: due to collective action problems there are more interest groups aimed at seeking economic benefits from government, social movement and protests, example: civil rights movement. Turnout = (pr x b) c + d: probability x benefit cost + civic duty. Legislative referendum- elected officials have control over question to be considered: popular referendum- public veto.
