Interest Groups and Parties

FOR NEXT MONDAY:

• Nathaniel Persily and Charles Stewart III, "The Miracle and Tragedy of the 2020 U.S. Election," Journal of Democracy, April 2021, https://www.journalofdemocracy.org/articles/the-miracle-and-tragedy-of-the-2020-u-s-election/
• Malcolm X, “The Ballot or the Bullet” http://www.edchange.org/multicultural/speeches/malcolm_x_ballot.html

WHAT DO YOU WANT TO COVER A WEEK FROM TODAY? LET ME KNOW IN YOUR WRITEUPS.

Giving by party

Lobbying and Shadow Lobbying

 

Inside game 

• In-house lobbying and contract lobbying
• Access -- the real value of campaign money
• The key:  knowing your stuff, making a case on the merits

Outside game

• Advertising
• Ballot measures
• Litigation

Political Money

• Official federal contribution limits
• Super PACs
• Other Outside Spending and Dark Money

Jonathan Rauch, "Political Realism: How Hacks, Machines, Big Money, and Back-Room Deals Can Strengthen American Democracy,"  Brookings, May 2015.

• Transactional politics in action: the Compromise of 1790

Party in the Electorate (PIE)

• A cinematic map of presidential voting
• Historical party affiliation  (Party registration and party affiliation or identification are not the same thing)
• Recent trends
• Party coalitions

Party in Government (PIG)

• Party Divisions in the House
• Party Divisions in the Senate
• State Government Control 

Party Organization (PO)

Party Outside Groups (POG)