POL 1001 Lecture Notes - Lecture 8: Freedom Caucus, Lyndon B. Johnson, John Boehner
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Congress ii gridlock (and other problems: components. Good public policy (educaion & workforce, foreign afairs). Pie (party-in-the-electorate): voing-age adults in the public who idenify with a party. Pig (party in government): those who hold oice under the party label. Po (party organizaion): an enity that works on behalf of candidates and issues. Party in government: seeks to win, and to govern. Internal: bill creaion is a diicult and unwieldy process. Mcs are held accountable for what their party does. Mcs take three acts to ensure reelecion: cap. The history of the house and senate demonstrate the power of commitees and paries as they serve member goals or not: house of representaives. Speaker: presides over the house (parliamentary leader), and is the leader of his party. One became a commitee chair via the seniority system. Problems with the commitee system: commitee chairs dominated the process, commitee chairs were overwhelmingly conservaive southern democrats, they blocked the reform eforts of younger liberal members.
