2 Political Science Essays
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Qu.1 In the 1956 election campaign, equal numbers of the people surveyed were very interested and not interested at all interested, and one third moderately interested (Nie, Verba and Petrocik 16-17). Most paid some attention to the campaign in newspapers and one television, but only three in ten read anything in magazines. Most people limited their political activity to the vote. The American public had an unsophisticated view of political matters and an inability to consider such matters in abstract terms (18). They did not conceptualize politics in the terminology you would expect of a citizenry who had a clear political ideology. Most Americans had strong and long-term commitments to a major political party and this guided their political behavior. People, on the whole, felt satisfied with the political system and viewed the government with a mix of trust and skepticism (35). The result of all this was that the government was pretty free to govern without any disturbance from the people. The lack of concern by the citizens allowed them flexibility to go about their business, and the voting freedom gave them the great freedom in framing the politics of government (39). From the 1950s to the 1970s, things began to change. Partisanship began to change and from 1964 through 1974, the proportion of strong identifiers with particular parties dropped while the proportion of independents rose (Nie, Verba and Petrocik 49). While party identification was the key to th
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sharply drawn between the two parties over such issues as abortion and health care and the number of citizen who could talk about the parties increased somewhat. People's impressions of the parties are more negative today than they were in the 1950's and are spread across a wider range of concerns (Petterson 39). There are no enduring party images any more, and party identification has weakened. By 1972, only 72 percent of voters were strongly partisan, and 34 percent were independents. However, in surveys, independents have consistently shown lower voter turnouts than strong partisans. Historically, the privileged have gained the most from parties (44). Voter turnout among those at the bottom of the income and educations scales is only half that for those at the top.
Works Cited
Nie, Norman H., Sidney Verba and John R. Tetrocik. The Changing American Voter.
Patterson, Thomas E. The Vanishing Voter.
Qu.2
Even in late-twentieth century America, there were large income gaps between white and black in America (Dawson 33) many of the causes for the erosion of African-Americans' absolute and relative economic power has been caused directly by state policy or lack of it. Despite this, there has been a significa
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