Outer Party

Political party polarization is a topic of great interest to political scientists. There is a myriad of research on the subject that explores both its generalities and specifics, from explanations of how a party system can become polarized to attempts to quantify levels of polarization in particular nations. In his article “The Quality and the Quantity of Party Systems,” Russell J. Dalton defines the phenomenon as reflecting “the degree of ideological differentiation among political parties in a…

When this biased districting was found, the court decided to redo the redistricting and shift part of one district to the other so that there would be equal representation of each party (Supreme Court Justices). Although redistricting based on party affiliation is important, it is not always the main cause. “While partisan gerrymanders have been accepted by the courts, racial ones have not. The Voting Rights Act requires map makers to consider race to a point” (Supreme Court Justices). Race…

of the United States of America in the presidential election of 1828. He was born near the colonial areas or Waxhaws region between the South Carolina and North Carolina. He was the earliest founder of the major dominant party of the United States of America I.e. Democratic Party. Most of the times in his life, he supported for liberty among individuals and formulated new policies regarding the increasing migration of the Native Americans. He is also better known as the ' 'People 's president '…

to Reagan through the Bush era. His history of the rise of conservative ascendancy from the earliest days of Goldwater forward brought back many memories and filled some gaps. Critchlow develops a comprehensive narrative of how the Republican party challenged the established Democratic majority which was still entrenched with a fusion of the last of the “New Dealers” as against the rising strength of the…

The current state of this year’s presidential campaign is chaotic. There are a loot of US citizens who do not know who they are going to vote for. Some people are even voting for the presidential candidate that is opposite of their political party. Whoever people vote for, being correctly informed is the most important thing when considering a political candidate. In the age of the internet, there are millions of pieces of information available to anybody. However, not everything on the internet…

Barack Obama is the forty-third president of the United States of America. He is the first African-American president. President Obama was born on August 4, 1961 in Honolulu, Hawaii. After high-school Obama attended Occidental College in Los Angeles for two years. Afterwards he transferred to Columbia University in New York City, graduating in 1983 with a political science degree. He worked his way through college with the help of scholarships and student loans, when Obama moved to Chicago he…

In American History there have been many significant people like Franklin D. Roosevelt to Barack Obama who have fought for the better tomorrow of the United States of America and have left a great legacy from their political achievements that have developed in the United States from the 20th century to the present. To begin with Earl Warren, an American jurist and politician was appointed to be the 14th Chief Justice of the United States from the 1950’s-1960’s. The significance in this was that…

As the upcoming Presidential election approaches, many citizens believe their personal vote will elect the next President and Vice President. However, the framers of the U.S. Constitution decided to have a different process instead of using the popular vote. As the form of government was being discussed, America was not as large as it is today. In the United Kingdom, the leader is chosen by the governing body. Two leading thoughts were prevalent during the major discussions while setting up…

The memoir by Timothy B. Tyson; Blood Done Sign My Name: A True Story, portrays an event that impacted ten year old Timothy Tyson in Oxford, North Carolina. During the 1970’s the Civil Rights Movement was in action and along with it came a lot of disagreements with civilians to an extent that a common vigilante group was created; The Ku Klux Klan. Although the Ku Klux Klan became nationwide, it was widely accepted more in North Carolina deterring the African American race in the memoir. In the…

1932, 1980, and the most recent election have shaped and changed politics as we know it. “The country is in greater danger than it has been since 1861. This is not merely our opinion, and is not merely a party opinion. It is the profound belief of patriotic men without distinction of party and in every section of the country” (New York Daily Tribune, 1896). The election of 1896, the election against the “Gilded Age Republican” (Kelly, 2003) William McKinley and the Populist candidate William…