Interest Groups and Parties

Class presentations:  3-4 per class through Nov 19. Need three volunteers for Monday. 

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

Next week, student hours are Mon and Tue 1-2 and via Zoom by appointment.

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)

• Outside spending
• Partisan think tanks, media sites