The document discusses several topics related to congressional incumbency:
1) Incumbency has become more of a career over time, with the proportion of first-term representatives falling from 58% in the 19th century to 8% by the 1960s.
2) Incumbents have advantages like name recognition, fundraising ability, and ability to perform constituent services, giving them a better chance of re-election.
3) Members of Congress can represent their constituents in different ways - as delegates by following voters' preferences, as trustees by following their own beliefs, or as partisans by prioritizing their political party. Most try to balance these approaches.
4) Congressional caucuses allow members
Slide show prepared for a series of lectures on Political Parties for PS 101 American Government at the University of Kentucky, Fall 2007. Dr. Christopher S. Rice, Lecturer.
Slide show prepared for a series of lectures on voting and elections for PS 101 American Government at the University of Kentucky, Fall 2007. Dr. Christopher S. Rice, Lecturer.
Slide show prepared for a series of lectures on Political Parties for PS 101 American Government at the University of Kentucky, Fall 2007. Dr. Christopher S. Rice, Lecturer.
Slide show prepared for a series of lectures on voting and elections for PS 101 American Government at the University of Kentucky, Fall 2007. Dr. Christopher S. Rice, Lecturer.
Slide show prepared for a series of lectures on public opinion and political socialization for PS 101 American Government at the University of Kentucky, Fall 2007. Dr. Christopher S. Rice, Lecturer.
Slide show prepared for a series of lectures on public opinion and political socialization for PS 101 American Government at the University of Kentucky, Fall 2007. Dr. Christopher S. Rice, Lecturer.
POL110 Week 7 Scenario Script The Power of CongressSlide #Sce.docxLeilaniPoolsy
POL110 Week 7 Scenario Script: The Power of Congress
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Introductory screen, containing the environment (an outside view of a government office building) and a title showing the scenario topic. There will be a “begin” button on the screen allowing students to begin the scenario.
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Amanda and Dr. Ryan standing in Dr. Ryan’s office.
Dr. Ryan: Hello, Amanda.
Last week we took a close look at the campaign process and the elections they lead to. This week we’re going to examine the role of Congress in the political process.
Amanda, can you tell me what comes to mind when you think of the United States Congress?
Amanda: Hmm, let me see…
The House of Representatives and the Senate are the two chambers that compose Congress. They have been part of our system as long as we have been a country. Although they have always been divided along party lines, they’ve found numerous ways to work together so that public policy can be made.
Dr. Ryan: Good point.
I’m not so sure that the Senate is the world’s greatest debating body, as it likes to refer to itself. But the Senate and the House do come together to make the kind of policy you referred to, through compromise. It’s important that we remember that.
Amanda: But you would never know it with the amount of gridlock that goes on up on Capitol Hill.
Dr. Ryan: Right. This is especially true when the president comes from one party and either the Senate or the House is controlled by another.
In fact, it’s rare that one party controls all three bodies, making a willingness to compromise that much more important.
Amanda: Party polarization, or partisanship, was fairly commonplace up to about 1910. But then Congress pretty much settled down until the 1970s, when party polarization picked up again. Why is that?
Dr. Ryan: The war in Vietnam had a lot to do with it. Our minor involvement there began in the late 1950s under Eisenhower, a Republican. But this involvement was expanded enormously under Kennedy and Johnson, both Democrats. The war was finally ended in 1973 under Nixon, another Republican.
The civil rights movement also split the parties and even wings within the same parties. Since these rifts have never quite healed, we now have a system that sees partisanship more often than we would like.
Amanda: It’sinteresting that there are so many differences between our congressional system and the parliamentary systems that predominate in Europe, Australia and Japan.
Dr. Ryan: Yes. In Great Britain’s House of Commons, which equates to our House of Representatives, members are nominated by party leaders after that party has won a general election. But here in the U.S., members of Congress are elected directly by the voters themselves.
This means that their allegiance is to the voters and not necessarily to a party. That’s why representatives can get away with voting as their constituents want and not as their party leaders deman.
Acolyte Episodes review (TV series) The Acolyte. Learn about the influence of the program on the Star Wars world, as well as new characters and story twists.
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Here is Gabe Whitley's response to my defamation lawsuit for him calling me a rapist and perjurer in court documents.
You have to read it to believe it, but after you read it, you won't believe it. And I included eight examples of defamatory statements/
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El Puerto de Algeciras continúa un año más como el más eficiente del continente europeo y vuelve a situarse en el “top ten” mundial, según el informe The Container Port Performance Index 2023 (CPPI), elaborado por el Banco Mundial y la consultora S&P Global.
El informe CPPI utiliza dos enfoques metodológicos diferentes para calcular la clasificación del índice: uno administrativo o técnico y otro estadístico, basado en análisis factorial (FA). Según los autores, esta dualidad pretende asegurar una clasificación que refleje con precisión el rendimiento real del puerto, a la vez que sea estadísticamente sólida. En esta edición del informe CPPI 2023, se han empleado los mismos enfoques metodológicos y se ha aplicado un método de agregación de clasificaciones para combinar los resultados de ambos enfoques y obtener una clasificación agregada.
An astonishing, first-of-its-kind, report by the NYT assessing damage in Ukraine. Even if the war ends tomorrow, in many places there will be nothing to go back to.
‘वोटर्स विल मस्ट प्रीवेल’ (मतदाताओं को जीतना होगा) अभियान द्वारा जारी हेल्पलाइन नंबर, 4 जून को सुबह 7 बजे से दोपहर 12 बजे तक मतगणना प्रक्रिया में कहीं भी किसी भी तरह के उल्लंघन की रिपोर्ट करने के लिए खुला रहेगा।
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