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| 4 exteral elements influence parties |
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legal-political system
election system
the political culture
the heterogeneous quality of America |
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| Northern states allow blank parties while southern states allow blank parties |
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| 3 influences of media in the primary process |
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media turns it into a horse race, less about issues
Establishes performance expectations and rankings
Undercuts the role of party leaders |
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| What are the 4 incumbency advantages for congressional campaigns |
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Fundraising advantage
Year round campaign
Existing voting record
Existing office and staff |
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| 2 types of issues during campaigns |
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| What 3 reforms did BCRA bring? |
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Banned parties and officeholders from raising and spending soft money
Raised hard money donations and indexed them for inflation
Prohibited soft money on electioneering communications |
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| party expenditures based on presidential campaign's behalf |
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| money spent on express advocacy but not coordinated with campaign, usually unlimited. |
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| What are the 4 PAC spending factors? |
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Incumbency
Party
Legislative Position
Committee or party position |
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| homogeneous and partisanship leads to stronger party lined voting and leadership roles |
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| Single bills that can contain many provisions that often aren't related to each other |
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| 3 part definition of parties |
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As an organization
In government
In the electorate |
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| 5 Consequences of multifactionalism |
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Definition
Very hard to choose who to vote for
No party responsibility
Elections become about personality
Little gets done policy-wise
Voter turnout is low |
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| Implications of frontloading |
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Requires tremendous amount of $ early on
Build campaign organization early on
Campaign process is more national earlier
If you don't do well in the first couple primaries, yer done
You can't put all your chips on winning the first couple primaries |
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1-get key supporters out to vote
2-build by activating latent support
3-try and change opposition
4-mobilize new groups |
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| What moves public opinion during campaigns? |
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Debates
Ads
Conventions
Mistakes
Visits to states |
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Reduce influence of large contributions
Enhance role of small donors
Reduce emphasis on money
Provide all aspirants with a chance to run
Have more competitive nat'l elections |
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| What factors outside of washington have increased congressional partisanship |
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Replacement of old moderate reps with younger ideologues
New national political climate
Parties in gov are internally homogeneous |
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| What factors have increased congressional partisanship outside washington |
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Stronger party leaders
Growth of leadership PACs
Increased use of Rules committee
Cultural change in washington |
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