[POLS 489] - Final Exam Guide - Comprehensive Notes for the exam (40 pages long!)

• School: Texas A&M University
• Department: Political Science
• Course: POLS 489
• Professor: David Fortunato

Document Summary

Parties that split 50 50, both parties are worth something. Small parties or parties that cannot win government positions or make the government difficult are not useful. A way to find the effective or useful amount of parties that would be most effective in government. Determine how many choices you have in an elections. How many parties can make policy or have an impact. Closely aligned parties two parties that want the same thing. Should they really be divided into two or more different parties even though they are so close. One of the left and one on the right. Every other country in the world the word liberal means conservative or liberty. Unclear to political scientists if parties should be connected unless they say so. Cdu/csu german political party with current prime minister. The party is actually two different parties that are connect. Each section does not run their party in the other area because they have an agreement.