POLS 1101 1st Edition Lecture 14 Outline of Previous Lecture I Handed out test and answered questions about test Outline of Current Lecture I Development and Evolution of the Party System II Second Party System look it up in book and slide III Third Party System look it up in book and slide IV Third Party System look it up in book and slide V Fifth Party System VI Current System Emerges VII De alignment and Realignment VIII Media and Money IX Sixth Party System X Party Differences XI Polarization XII Seventh party system Current Lecture I II III Development and Evolution of the Party System First party system started during 1790 1824 Washington was a federalist as well as Hamilton and they did not like parties Madison Thomas Jefferson wanted a stronger national government but they believed that some power should be left to the states They are being tired of being run over in the legislative process so they form the Democratic Republican party o They wanted to be active in the 13th states o Collectively organized on a national level o They win the white house in 1800 and dominate for many years Second Party System look it up in book and slide Organizational Innovations Emergence of Party loyalty if your side wins than you get to work in the federal government Decline of the Whigs they go away Third Party System look it up in book and slide These notes represent a detailed interpretation of the professor s lecture GradeBuddy is best used as a supplement to your own notes not as a substitute IV V VI VII Rise of party machines corruption where people take their power to far because they control a majority of the government Rise of Progressive party they call out the different party corruptions and try to recreate certain things that had corruption o Political Reform A way in which they fixed corrupt politics Fourth Party System Populists impact the Democrats agenda o The Great Depression Fifth Party System Unemployment rates are extremely high People are sick of government so they believe in FDR FDR and the New Deal Coalition He gets the following votes under the Democratic party o White segregationists with northern African American o Progressive intellectuals with machine politicians o Union members and poor farmers o Catholics and Baptists Republicans have the business and professional people upper income protestants and residents of small towns and cities in the northeast and the Midwest FDR creates jobs to give people more money so they will spend more moeny Current System Emerges Economic issues such as depression are ending Ends the Fifth party system Democrats start to get involved in civil rights o Civil Rights Act of 1964 Southern Democrats start to leave the party Republicans are fighting for state rights De alignment and Realignment Party line voting decreases in the 1970s o Conservatives are switching to Republicans o Liberals are switching to the Democrats Jimmy Carter s election in 1976 caused a brief pauses o The conservatives vote democrat and the liberals vote republican just for that election Party line voting is weak because people are trying to decide on which side they should vote 1968 the Democratic Party meeting is a complete disaster o They nominated the wrong people o The Democrats then decide to change how the nominees are selected o They decide nominees should be decided by their own party and run primary elections VIII IX X XI XII o The people who really care about politics are the ones who vote o By handing the voting to the people it causes the parties to have stronger nominees o Now the nominees are more extreme after the primary Media and Money Elections become more expensive o Parties are there to campaign and raise money o But due to technological changes Television Computerized direct mail mass produced campaign videos Candidate centered campaigns has driven up costs Sixth party system Reagan was the most extreme conservative who was elected o The liberals left the Republican party o Conservatives jumped in with the Republican party Less ticket splitting Voters are steadily less neutral Parties are indispensable to elected officials Party Differences Republicans o Tend to favor a smaller cheaper federal government o Advocate lower taxes o Less regulation of business o Lower spending on social welfare o Let free enterprise flourish let the market work itself out o More generous only to the defense department o Would ban abortion and gay marriage o look online Democrats o More inclined to regulate business on behalf of consumers and the environment o look online o Would spend less on national defense this is changing quickly today Not all members of a party support all their party s positions Polarization Partisan gap in presidential approval ratings higher under W Bush and Obama than at any other point in the era of public opinion polling Partisans have sorted into the ideologically correct party to a greater extend today than before Seventh party system Young voters minorities unmarried women are growing as of the population Democrats currently have the edge with these groups and Obama won a majority share of their vote nationwide and in battleground states Most of the media punditry portrays the GOP as the party of old white guys and its leaders are plotting on how to compete with the Democrats for these voters
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