Parties and Elections I

For Wednesday, the Madrid reading at Canvas.

Presentations today: Adeline,  Anay, Kurt, Sarah.

Wed presentations:  Ethan, Jules, Marco, Ved

Stylistic points:

• Use proper endnote format.
• Avoid dropped quotations
• Do not jam superscripts together. To cite multiple sources for a sentence, put them in the same note and separate them with semicolons.
• Use shortened form for subsequent citations.

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US parties are networks with four dimensions:

• PIE
• PO
• PIG
• POG

Party in the Electorate (PIE)

• Last time: 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

AND THE ROLE OF RELIGION

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

Though distinct, the levels have deep connections:  the PIE chooses the PIG.

Current times are very unusual in the degree to which POTUS has nationalized his party.  Dems are "leaderless," but out-parties usually are!

Malcolm X on the stakes of political mobiliztion

The political philosophy of black nationalism means that the black man should control the politics and the politicians in his own community; no more. The black man in the black community has to be re-educated into the science of politics so he will know what politics is supposed to bring him in return. Don't be throwing out any ballots. A ballot is like a bullet. You don't throw your ballots until you see a target, and if that target is not within your reach, keep your ballot in your pocket.