POL203Y1 Study Guide - Social Choice Theory, Direct Democracy, Rock The Vote

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Exam reading notes (january 13- april 7 2011) Interaction of three major developments now seems to me to be of great important for the state of politics today: Unions play an important role in the democratic party. The economic liberalism of the 1950s democrats evolved into the lifestyle liberalism of the. Republicans money was in less short supply than voters so the republicans allied with conservative christian groups as a way of attacking the democrats" majority status. Education, affluence and ideology supported demands for a vast increase in the sphere in which government could operatethe expansion of the scope of government created myriad new opportunities for those with particular issue concerns to become active in politics. The most widely recognized of these changes is the transformation of the presidential nominating process. In 1960 john kennedy was nominated by democratic party professionals. Four years later, goldwater was nominated by purists

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