POL 351 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Two-Round System, David Perdue, Nonpartisan Blanket Primary
16 Jun 2016
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Political parties in the news: state elections will turn into runoff elections. Candidates in georgia: david perdue (r) vs. nunn (d)- majority runoff system (january) Candidates in louisiana: landreiu (d) cassidy (r) maness (r?) A lot of states had majority runoff systems for their primary, which made it more difficult for an african. American; this is a way to decrease the influence of political party networks in congress: a new bush is running for office in texas, dynasties: bush, kennedy, roosevelt, clinton, adams, frelinghuysen, What makes a good candidate?- a familiar last name: ralph reed (r) heading in ga. Parties in the electorate notes: october 21, 2014. Things discussed in the 1st half of the course: Because parties are formal cooperation amongst elites and they need to work amongst each other to solve coordination problems. Different forms of parties: machine, programmatic and networks. This week we will discuss variation in party affiliation and intensity across voters.
