POSC320 Study Guide - Midterm Guide: Logical Truth, Gerrymandering, Lijsttrekker
12 Dec 2018
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How do voters make decisions in each: certainty: voter"s ability to relate party proposals to their own preferences. Ideology: a verbal image of the good society and of the chief means of constructing such a society. Ideology allows voters to behave rationally under conditions of uncertainty. If you"re reliable, i can predict your behavior from your statements. Ideological stability: maintain a stable ideology because significant changes hurt reliability and (mostly) responsibility: why does it take parties so long to adapt their ideologies to changing social conditions, people are entrenched, they don"t want to change fast. 3: a party cannot contradict its past actions unless a significant change justifies it. Responsibility leads to ideological immobility, as it tends to encourage slow growth in a party"s original beliefs. Ideological coherence: idea that you"re trying to create an ideology for everyone but isn"t inconsistent: struggle to create an ideology where all positions fit together.
