POLS 125 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Block Party
28 Feb 2020
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When obama became president, the republican party proudly became the party of no , a label meaning they"d say no to anything that president obama put forward: they lacked the will to govern and had no particular agenda. Americans are increasingly likely to demonize their political opponents. The founding fathers attempted to create a constitutional system to block party still emerging in the political system of the united states: political parties are not mentioned in the constitution despite this fear and hatred from the. Two opposing views of parties, those of the founding fathers who saw them as dangerous and divisive and those of political scientists that view them as indispensable to modern government. Parties in the electorate provide a shorthand queue for voting and mobilize turn out. Parties as organizations recruit, train and find political candidates and run party primaries to winnow down the list of candidates.
