Midterm Chapter 1

Question 0

What did parties do exactly?

Answer 0

Organized elections, legitimizing opposition, and guaranteeing peaceful transitions of power

Question 1

The constitution’s framers felt what about political parties

Answer 1

They were skeptical and thought of them as factions to be avoided

Question 2

What did parties do once in office?

Answer 2

Helped elected officials work together and bridged some of the difference between and among government institutions

Question 3

Did parties acquire a degree of public approval at the end of the 19th century?

Answer 3

Yes as they entered the Industrial Age

Question 4

How do parties different from other organizations

Answer 4

1. Parties run candidates for office under their own label. Interest groups do not have a party label and they do not officially nominate candidates for office.
2. When it comes to determining policy, parties have a broad range of concerns, interest groups have much narrower concerns.
3. Political parties are subject to state and local laws. Interest groups are private organizations operating under minimal state/federal regulations and with aid of constitutional protections of free speech, assembly, petition

Question 5

What are the components of American political parties?

Answer 5

1. Party in the electorate- refers to those who identify with a particular party. In the United States it’s more of a physiological attachment.
2. Party organization- refers to the formal apparatus of the party. Physical assets like HQ. Collective activities like conventions.
3. Party in government- refers to those who have captured office under a party label

Question 6

Did the tripod model work in the close of the 20th century? Why or why not

Answer 6

No, because of the withering of the party in the electorate

Question 7

What exactly has changed the way parties operate?

Answer 7

The rise in the importance and availability of information

Question 8

American life has been transformed by what interrelated developments?

Answer 8

1. Society has become wealthier and more affluent compared to earlier eras. Most workers are salaried professionals.
2. Brainpower has replaced manual labor as a key tool of productivity.
3. Technology that revolutionized mass communication has reshaped the way we interact with each other and diminished the once restrictive boundaries of time and space.
4. New occupational structures, lifestyles, and social classes are creating new elites
5. Modes of recreation have changed. Social network replacing coffee socials

Question 9

Hamilton vs. Jefferson - liberty

Answer 9

Hamilton- preferred liberty be coupled with authority

Jefferson- preferred that liberty be paired with local civic responsibility

Question 10

How do Hamilton and Jefferson view the United States

Answer 10

Hamilton- as one national family

Jefferson- as a series of diverse communities

Question 11

How do Hamilton and Jefferson differ in regards to power

Answer 11

Hamilton- prefers concentration of power in federal government

Jefferson- prefers to give power to state and local governments

Question 12

How do Jefferson and Hamilton view parties

Answer 12

Hamilton- as vehicles whose primary purpose is to win elections and control gov

Jefferson- as more ideologically based

Question 13

How do Hamilton and Jefferson differ in preferred party structure

Answer 13

Hamilton- prefers hierarchical part structure populated by professional party politicians

Jefferson- prefers decentralized party structure populated by amateur politicians

Question 14

Who do Hamilton and Jefferson trust to run government

Answer 14

Hamilton- trusts elites

Jefferson- trusts in common sense of average Americans

Question 15

Since the FDR new deal, democrats consistent align themselves with who, Jefferson or Hamilton?

Answer 15

Hamilton