PO II

For Tuesday, read Hershey, ch. 12: Wed. readings will be on Sakai.

Suggests for the next assignment?

Candace Valenzuela at Ath

Research paper option:  take a role in the simulation

National Committees

DNC and RNC

Hill Committees

DCCC and NRCC

DSCC and NRSC

1990: NRCC v. RNC

The 527 Groups 

• RGA: Republican Governors Association
• DGA: Democratic Governors Association
• RAGA: Republican Attorneys General Association
• DAGA: Democratic Attorneys General Association
• RSLC:  Republican State Leadership Committee 
• DLCC: Democratic Legislative Campaign Committee

"Honest Graft" and machines (See Hershey 62-64)

Plunkitt of Tammany Hall (esp. pp. 1-2)

Short video on immigrants and machines

Supreme Court decisions curb patronage

State Party Organizations (and an aside on citing Wikipedia):

• GOP state parties
• Democratic state parties

Party Services and Party Money (Hershey pp. 87-88)

Incentives for Activism

• Material: traditional party organization
• Solidary: social connections
• Purposive:  issues and ideologies

Voter turnout and duty

My generation v. yours

Most people do not engage beyond talking and voting

Young adult activism

Prags v. Purists:  Polarization means activism

Clear statement of transactional relationship (at 2:00)

Jesus and John Wayne

Getting Religion from Politics:

At the same time, their priorities have begun to shift. Dr. Burge pointed to an analysis of the 2016 Cooperative Congressional Election Study he’d conducted, in which white evangelicals ranked political issues by importance. Same-sex marriage — once a point of bitter contention between white evangelicals and some of their moderate Republican allies — came in last, after jobs, crime, gun control and a variety of other matters. Abortion, too, came in surprisingly low on white evangelicals’ ranking of priorities — underneath, for example, immigration. According to Mr. Smith, Pew found this year that “81 percent of white evangelical Protestants said that the economy would be a very important issue in making their decision about who to vote for in the 2020 presidential election, while 61 percent said the same about abortion.” In 2016, he added, a similar finding also held.

“I think what happened was, over time, white evangelical orthodoxy on politics sort of just melded into Republican orthodoxy, and there’s no difference anymore,” Dr. Burge told me. “We used to always believe that religion was the first cause and then politics was downstream of religion,” but newer studies suggest that “those two lenses have switched places now and that partisanship is the first cause and now religion is downstream of partisanship.”