Political Parties part 2
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What are the functions of political parties?
• Nominating Candidates • Raise Money - -> Soft money • Mobilization: get their voters to go to the polls • Informations Cues: Providing understanding on issue to members to provide a shortcut in doing the research
What are trends of political parties?
• Increased influence amount of people having a say in who’s in charge of the political party • Candidate Centered Election —> Gun owner ship, gay marriage, immigration • Assorted ourselves in Cultural choices • Polarization of parties
What are Candidate Centered Election?
• paradigm shift from voting on view points of issues to candidates personality and message • Individual campaign rather than party campaign
What is polarization in reference to trends of political parties?
• Less in less people are in the middle - Politician have been played to extremes not to the middle