POLS 104 Lecture Notes - Lecture 19: Santa Barbara City College, Path Dependence
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The role of the private sphere in us public policy. Policy makers at least must consider public opinion. Our institutions require at least some consideration of public opinion. Public opinion is formed from the aggregate of individual opinions. Those individuals tend to organize with like-minded people to protect their. Political parties form to broadly represent sets of these groups. Parties elect candidates who in turn make policy. How it is that we transfer political ideas from one generation/one group to the next (kids and immigrants, boomers millenials) We inherently want our beliefs to be conserved. The process by which the central tenets of the political culture are transmitted from those immersed in it to those, such as children and immigrants, who are not. (jillson, pg. Note that it is, in the true definition of the word, a conservative process. Greenstein: who learns what from whom under what.
