01:790:360 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Patient Protection And Affordable Care Act, Colonoscopy, Gerrymandering
23 Mar 2017
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What do these pictures have in common: lice, an image of a colonoscopy, a root canal, these are all more popular than the us congress. Congress is unpopular but : 90% of incumbents are reelected, most elections are won by a landslide, us 139th in world voter turn out, democrats won more than 500k more votes than republicans, but. Republicans won 242 seats, democrats 190: underrepresentation of women and minorities, there are about 20 women in the senate right now, 20% of senate is represented by women. Electoral system: winner takes all (aka first past the post" = fptp, aka single member district plurality" = smdp ) know this because we"ll be. Summary: american political institutions are fragmented and prone to gridlock, 3 branches of government, bicameral legislature, federalism, hard to reach agreement, unclear who is accountable, elections based on winners of geographically determined districts.
