PSYCH 202 Study Guide - Final Guide: Cable Television, Muddling Through, Cumulate Rock
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*eliminates the motivation for elected members to define broad policy objectives, leading to a diminished political participation and a rise of alienation. Political parties provide benefits for democracy: clarifying policy alternatives, who to hold accountable when things go wrong. Decline in key areas of political party involvement: electorate, government, party organizations. Fiorina, the decline of collective responsibility in american poitics . Sundquist, needed: a political theory for the new era . Political parties should have a strong place, and they do. Function to: construct meaningful policy programs at the congressional level and in party platforms, follow through promises, unify in congress, present clear and competing visions of the role of government, be involved in campaigning (funds), back successful candidates. Similar to parliamentary government (congress more important than president) Agrees with fiorina that political parties are weaker than in the past. Divided government has become the norm, but wasn t always so-used to be rare.
