POLI 2309- Midterm Exam Guide - Comprehensive Notes for the exam ( 28 pages long!)
12 Oct 2017
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Indirect electoral approach - lower selects the upper, lower selects the executive. If there are less house and senate members, they will represent a larger number of constituents, and it would be much harder to get to know every person in a larger district. 2: tend to look out for their own faction rather than the good of the whole country, factions are interested only in the interests of the faction - not the common good. If we give the national government more power, and we make the constituencies bigger rather than smaller, then we decrease the probability that a majority faction captures the levers of power. This is the representative legitimacy of the house. It is in the representatives interests to get reelected, so if the representative is only about the few and not for the many than you can just vote them out.
