POLS 1336 Chapter Notes - Chapter 5: Early Summer, Dealignment, Northern Panhandle Of West Virginia
25 Dec 2017
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Valence issues noncontroversial issues that everyone can get behind: safe stances for parties to take, ex: peace, growing the economy. Position issues controversial that may divide the public: texas politics tries to stay away from this. Decentralization exercise of power is at the local, state, and federal level: political parties also operate from local to federal level. Parties have more influence on the national level now due to using the internet as an information spreading and funding tool. Democrats dominated texas politics until 1980s: institution of party primary reform in 1906 voters could choose the party"s nominees by a direct vote in the party primary. No republican nominees meant the democrat party wins every time: the republican party was the ones responsible for the great depression. Under the republic of texas, political divisions were usually orientated around support of, or opposition to sam houston, a leading founder of the republic.
