POL SCI 40 Lecture Notes - Lecture 12: Voting Behavior, Southern Strategy, Gerrymandering
12 Sep 2017
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30 multiple choice 3 graph idetifications (lecture slides) 10 written identifications (short answers) (3 must be answered in class) Division in preferences and what they want government to do. Polarization is the social process whereby a group is divided into opposing subgroups. Ideologies is a comprehensive, integreated set of views about government and politics. In the us, it is traditionally viewed as a continuum from liberals and the left and conservatives on the right. Liberals have more secular views, conservatives have more traditional views. People argure there are multiple dimensions of ideology: an economic and a social component. Nominate scores: a method to measure ideology or party loyalty of members of congress. Graph: congress is coming closer together and moving apart. The distance between the two tops of distribution. External causes of elite polarization: a polarized electorate( more to come, southern realignment (sorting, gerrymandering, economic inequality, primary elections, donors/money, media environment.
