By Benjamin Bishin
Why do politicians often heed the personal tastes of small teams of electorate over these of the bulk? Breaking new theoretical flooring, Benjamin Bishin explains how the needs of small teams, which he calls subconstituencies, frequently trump the personal tastes of a lot higher groups.
Tyranny of the Minority presents a unified idea of illustration, dependent in social psychology and identification idea, to provide an explanation for how voters depth fosters wisdom and participation and drives applicants habit in campaigns and legislators' habit in Congress. Demonstrating the huge applicability of the idea, Bishin strains politicians' habit in reference to a variety of concerns, together with the Cuban alternate embargo, the extension of hate-crimes laws to guard homosexual males and lesbians, the renewal of the assault-weapons ban, abortion politics, and Congress's try to realize the Armenian genocide. He bargains a distinct rationalization of while, why, and the way particular pursuits dominate American nationwide politics.
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9 Such an event might include, for instance, a current event, a well-designed advertisement (political or not), a news story, a personal tragedy, 26 / Chapter 2 or a public speech. Since both the identity activated and the strength of the activated identity may vary, association with a particular identity related to a group is highly variable. , Sherif and Cantril 1947). As one’s intensity increases, one is increasingly likely to participate on the issue. The importance of active and intense group associations can be seen in the race for Florida’s 25th district House seat described in the previous chapter.
Examples of the importance of personal experience and descriptive characteristics on people’s voting proclivities abound. Senator Edward Kennedy’s wellpublicized car crash off a Chappaquiddick bridge limits his support. New Hampshire Senator Robert Smith’s defection from, and later return to, the GOP clearly angered staunch partisans, who removed him in the 2002 primary election. , McDermott 1997) can also be seen in selected races. Each of these factors provides cues to groups and voters that may be related only indirectly to issue positioning.
Party, ideology) used if position is taken at all Politicians’ Action Subconstituency politics holds that candidates appeal to and activate groups of intense citizens to gain electoral advantage. Behavior in Congress is an attempt to serve those groups or to expand the legislative coalition. Expectations about candidates’ positioning must account for the fact that individual districts vary in their preferences across issues and that the relevance of issues varies across districts. In some districts, no meaningful opinion exists on many issues, but on other issues, opinion is intense.