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Political Parties The Party
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After the elections are over, how do the
“victors” take control of government and implement their policy goals? This is an
interesting question for students of American political parties! Does the separation
of presidential and congressional elections, the nature of American
elections, and the very notion of separation of powers encourage or
discourage partisan control and the passage of a party’s platform? Ever hear of the
concept of “divided government”? Where is the party’s
platform? Is it followed? How do you force
“responsibility” when the congressperson may be more beholden to interest
groups than to party? What is the impact
of party on congressional behavior? What is the impact
of our system on policy creation? These are difficult
questions to answer in the American context!
How do other
countries form (organize) government? Here are some links
from the past! (Note: the
Italian and Burlesconi forms new Italian government Iraqis
try again to form new government It
took Indians awhile to form in 2004 What is the
relationship between organization and action in coalition governments? Using the results of
the Ruritania simulation
we can explore how there is an intermediate step between elections and the
party (or parties) in government and how this step has implications for the
formulation and passage of public policies.
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