Interest Groups and Parties

Will post Monday's readings on Sakai.

Start at 2:55

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 affiliation by state
• 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)