GVPT 170 Chapter Notes -Environmental Policy, Critical Role
12 Mar 2014
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How issues become structured along a party-driven, left-right dimension issue become the focus of national campaign, party supports either this side or that side one single dimension: conservative/liberal, left-right structured: ideological division, partisan driven. Issues initially cross-cutting then a critical moment issue that is not structured: no party supports clearly this side issues politicians made important are cross-cutting. E. g. , race & civil rights policy pre-goldwater in 1964. Critical role of politicians & elites elite until some politician takes a stand of it people these issues being taken into consideration counter argument: party responding to the changes chicken-egg problem. Issue dimensions = the structure of party politics. A contrary perspective (i. e. , the counterargument to tides) politicians & elites respond to changes in public cleavages. The con icted conservatives the nature of the symbolic meaning of the two words liberal, conservative liberal tends to have a negative connotative, negative symbolism probably they don"t know the meaning of these two words.
