POLS 1113 1st Edition Lecture 4Participation and VotingI. A System of Aggregate Preferences A. Collective Activism 1. Nothing more than a willingness to exchange something for something else a. Conservatives hold traditional values especially with issues such as businessand economics, states rights, healthcare, right to bear arms, national defense,death penalty, etc. B. Social Contracts and Political Preferences 1. Exchange aspects of Individual liberty in order to receive aspects of societalsecurity 2. Social Contracts- Giving something up with consent of passively 3. Small states get peace from the Senate 4. Big states get peace from the House 5. Elites get peace from the electoral college C. Preferences 1. We trade liberty for security 2. Society vs. insecurity 3. Liberals – favorable to progress or reform as in political or religious affairs 4. Conservatives – hold traditional views and values cautious about change orinnovation, typically in relation to politics or religion D. Collapsing Ideology 1. Rational Opportunity – One cant get better without the other getting worse 2. Civil liberties agenda a. Markets are really efficient but because we mess with them markets are lessefficient b. Markets are good if everyone is on the same playing ground c. Want security with respect to economic regulation more from a liberalstance d. Social liberty and economic security 3. Conservative agenda a. People should provide for their own healthcare b. Want free markets to maintain law and order c. Economic liberty and social security II. Social Attitude Statement and Referent scales A. Kerlinger’s (1984) scale of liberal and conservative ideology1. Compromises give basic factors or dimensionsa. National and racism b. Liberalism and equality c. Economic views d. Traditional morality and religious views e. Realism (international relations) 2. These questions represent separate or “dualistic” properties of liberalism andconservatism III. Sources of Preferences A.Political socialization 1. Process by which people acquire the values, beliefs, and opinions that affecttheir involvement in the political system 2. Individual preferences a. School b. Peers c. Mass media d. Events e. Groups f.
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