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PS360 - Parties and Elections
Friday, 22 September 2000
PS360
Exam No. 1 - Essay Section
Professor
Russell Renka
Essay
is worth 100 points. Choose one
of the following topics. The
essay should be a paper of approximately 2 and ½ to 3 normal, honest pages in
length. Be sure to properly cite
all source material, including regular class readings. Due date: Wednesday,
September 27 by class time. If you
cannot avoid missing the class, send paper to me via email to rdrenka@semo.edu
or FAX to me at 573/6512695.
1.
There was a major change in the status of political parties within
American political life, starting about 1893 (according to Silbey).
Specify what this change was, citing the factors that brought this about.
Of those factors, specify which among them had the greatest impact.
2.
Herrnson says both national party committees have become firmly
institutionalized since the 1970s. Herrnson, Bibby and Maisel all say the power relations of
local, state and national organizations in each party have fundamentally changed
in that same period of time. What
is the nature of that change? And
in what way do the Democrats and Republicans differ from each other with respect
to that change?