POLI 1200 Lecture Notes - Lecture 10: Gfk Entertainment Charts
22 May 2018
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Introduction Week:
I. Political Behavior
a. Why political behavior?
i. Why do we care to study political behavior?
ii. Why are you here?
1. do’t the elites ad the edia otrol eerthig??
2. Eaple: “ria. We hae’t heard aout it eause the edia has’t
covered it
3. Why are there 2 main parties?
b. We are a democracy
i. Many polling organizations want to know what we think, why we vote, what
they think about economy, etc
1. Thoughts on economy impact spending habits which then impacts
economy
ii. 6 billion spent on all of the elections in 2016
1. Spent to figure out how people are thinking and what they are thinking
2. Figure out what words you can use
3. How to frame the message
iii. Presidents have polling houses and poll the public.
1. What the people want techinically is what the gov should provide for us
a. Lik is’t alas there though
iv. Public can impact actions of presidents
1. Iraq war in 1990-91 with first Bush.
2. Clinton relecutance to get involved with riwanda.
c. Without a Deora, people’s ehaior is’t as important
i. Dahl’s deorati oditios
1. Elected officials
2. Free, fair and frequent elections
a. Freedom for political organizing
b. Freedom to express preferences
c. Alternative sources of information
d. Ease of entrance and competition for challengers
e. No voting barriers
f. Votes counted fairly
g. Votes=fair representation
3. Freedom of expression
4. Alternative sources of information
a. Italy example: prime minister owned a lot of private companies
and then became prime minister
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