POLS 489 Lecture Notes - Lecture 12: One-Party State
27 Oct 2016
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If a candidate/party loses votes, are they being removed from office? (page 49 bar graph) Majoritarian = likely to lose of seat. Policy influence is more spread out throughout the legislature. Similar to pre-electoral coalitions but more difficult determining who did what. Easier to pull out a candidate that did not do well. Easiest to determine if voters get what they want. The united states does not always have clear winners and losers. Democrats and republicans always have some type of voice and opinion in government. Division of the world into winners and losers. In government: majority/winning parties, voter gets what they want. Voted for parties that can bargain with the government: minority/3rd party, not an active role in government, voter gets some of what they want. Voted for the opposition party: loser party, not an active role in government, cannot bargain with party in government, voter does not get what they want.
