PSCI 3362 Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: Political Machine, Preston Brooks
7 Mar 2016
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Ideologues: people who elect them; they are very consistent, strong opinionated. 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) 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. Lead to decline in trust in government. 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. Officials are supposed to be representattive of those people.
