POL SCI 40 Chapter Notes - Chapter 7: Collective Action
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The path to office begins with the party. Fiorina argued that such responsibility was possible only through the agency of the political party. Jacobsen argued that contemporary elections induce responsibeness of individual incumbents to their districts but do so without [inducing] responsibility in incumbents for what. Why do politicians turn to create or reform to use or abuse partisan institutions: 1. Ambition and elective office seeking (multiple people running for republican gives democrats the one up: 2. The problem of making decisions for the party and for the party: 3. These^ concerns become practical problems to politicians when they adversely affect their chances of winning. Parties are institutions this means they have durability: 2. american democracy chooses by plurality or majority rule, 3.
