Interest Groups and Parties

 FOR NEXT TUESDAY:

• Malcolm X, “The Ballot or the Bullet” http://www.edchange.org/multicultural/speeches/malcolm_x_ballot.html

WHAT ELSE DO YOU WANT TO LEARN ABOUT PARTIES AND ELECTIONS?

Giving by party

Review from last time: 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
• Legal action

Political Money

• Official federal contribution limits
• Super PACs -- Trevor Potter explains
• 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)