PSCI 3362 Lecture Notes - Lecture 30: Preston Brooks, Political Machine
27 Jan 2017
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Ideologues: people who elect them; they are very consistent, strong opinionated. Then there are: non-attitudes, single issue voters, no coherent ideology, people who have no interest or knowledge. Usually will not strongly identify with a party unless you are an ideologue. There is usually no 1 to 1 match up. Democratized politics - maximum possible participation (fiorina"s argument) Primaries instead of party bosses choosing candidates. Buffer between what people want and what an official would propose: people"s voice and choice is not good, otherwise people would trust government more. Usually people fought to obtain land and other goods. Hobbes: defense for the king, sovereign brings order and life is better and remove the war and use/need of it: preston brooks from sc who beat charles sumner from ma. Sumner gave a speech about abolition and brooks beat him with a cane. Politics is the authoritative allocation of scares resources. People"s concerns/top priorities are not what the elected officials do.
