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Quiz 4 Flashcards

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Delegate

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MC loyalty represents constituents’ direct interests

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Trustee

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MC represents constituent interests, but also considers national, collective, & moral concerns that sometimes cause them to vote against constituent interests

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Sub constituencies

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Widest to narrowest: geographic, reelection, primary, & personal

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Geographic constituency

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District viewed as a whole

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Reelection constituency

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People who voted for the MC in the general election

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Primary constituency

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People who provide support in primaries (loyalists, donors, interest groups)

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Personal constituency

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Loyal advisors and aids (people they can trust)

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Home folks congressman

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Personal, relatable

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Issue-articulating activist

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Verbal, issue oriented, outsider, I’ll-at-ease with conventional politics

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Local political leader

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Popular local athlete, uses national defense issues to symbolize his openness with district, supportive of the military

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Demographic change

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As pop movement or redistricting force a member to confront unfamiliar voters or territories, reps have to adapt or perish

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Strategic reaction

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When a fresh challenger or issue threatens established voting patterns, MCs may have to change

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Goals & ambitions

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Desires to be president, start a family, etc., that would cause someone to adopt a different homestyle

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4 uses of political parties

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  1. Giving party leaders the capability to discipline party members
  2. Reps become identified with the performance of the collectivity to which they belong, either congress or their party
  3. Voters have less incentive to support individual candidates and more to support/oppose a party
  4. Increased partisanship in the electorate provides party leaders with the incentive to propose policies which reach a national majority
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Legislative styles

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  1. District advocates 2. Party soldiers 3. Public face 4. Elites
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District advocates

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None in the Republican Party, MCs devote a lot of time to the home front & are particularly bipartisan in their cosponsorship coalitions, but receive low scores on visibility (show boat index)

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Party soldiers

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MCs constituency vote with their party, but do not engage in publicly visible activities & are not involved in raising/redistributing funds

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Public face

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MCs are strong party voters, engage in visible activities with regularity, are active in the leg process & raise money. However, they do not devote many resources to the Homefront

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Elites

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Final, and smallest, cluster includes MCs who

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Representational styles (grimmer)

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  1. Senate statespersons 2. Domestic policy wonks 3. Pork & policy 4. Appropriations
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Senate statespersons

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Senators who regularly take positions in their press releases and rarely claim credit for appropriations directed toward their states

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Domestic policy wonks

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Senators who focus on domestic policy issues & allocate few press resources to claiming credit for federal funds

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Pork & policy

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Like statespersons & policy wonks, senators in this category regularly engage in major policy issues. But unlike the others, these senators are not bashful about touting the money that is distributed to their state

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Appropriators

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Focus exclusively on credit claiming for money allocated to their state (all pork)

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Committees serve 2 broad purposes

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  1. Individual: constituency service & policy expertise

2. Institutional: policy marketing, oversight, & education

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Distributional hypothesis

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Committees are primarily designed for log rolling

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Informational hypothesis

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Committees are primarily designed to counteract the informational advantage of the exec branch

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Party hypothesis

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Committees are agents of the party caucus

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Standing committees

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Permanent, hold more importance & authority than others

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Select committees

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Temporary, created to address a specific issue for 1-2 terms

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Joint committees

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Identical to select, but contain members of the house & senate

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Conference committees

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Temporary, created to negotiate differences between house & senate versions of legislation

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Subconferences

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Break large bills into smaller pieces

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Proforma

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Issues are resolved informally before the committee convenes

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Iron triangle

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Committee, outside groups, & bureaucratic interests

36
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4 contributing factors that lead to the misperception of culture wars as described by Fiorina

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  1. Confusing closely divided with deeply divided
  2. Political activists are not normal people
  3. Media
  4. Confusing positions with choices

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