Political Science 1020E Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Social Inequality, Party System
10 Nov 2016
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Political science lecture date: tues, feb 23rd, 2016. Elite formation and recruitment (early century is the ideal of the citizen politician. Now parties recruit and hopefully have good political elites to present to the people) Goal formulation (we hope parties will play this role of setting the agenda of which goals will be shown to the public and chosen by public) Interest articulation and aggregation (expressing the positions of key views of the society. Putting together a coalition of groups in society and putting them together to support it. ) Socialization and mobilization (parties always are shaping our views, by moving us so we act and get out on election day. They want to mobilize people to get involved) Organization of government (parties are involved in making government work, so they need to bring in discipline in their party, so they can pass legislation. ) Cadre-elitist: (old way of politics) (organized around an important elite member.
