POL SCI 142A Lecture Notes - Lecture 11: Party System, Anachronism

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Candidate centered - trump, won with direct appeal to voters. Jimmy carte r-candidate centered politics-does not fit party centered theory. Former one-term governor of georgia, was not well known by anybody, went to small state. Iowa and spent a long time rallying support, sending christmas cards or something, got votes. After jimmy carter is when party realised. The party centered model (with time,this model unstable ex trump, romney) theory. Party centered- our argument is that carter was candidate centered and he doesn"t fit the. After jimmy carter, the party insiders figured out how to play the game and so most of the rest of the people who went to iowa war party insiders and won the party inside or supporters. People misplayed this model in 72 and 76, Trump does not fit the candidate centered model, romney in 2012 not so well and neither of the candidates in 2008 ,the american party system unstable, not unusual.

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