Why Leaders Should Not Follow Opinion Polls Leaders usually seek all possible advice before they arrive at their decisions. They want to use every means available for determining what the people want and what people believe about current issues. Public opinion polls can furnish one form of evidence which they can use together with evidence from other sources. A Leader would probably not rely solely on the polls for an estimate of public opinion, but he could be expected to use the public’s opinion. To what extent should leaders rely on polling results to guide them in voting on legislation?
Teamsmanship is not a produce of polarization. With a huge investment in party platform, the image of the party is a key asset. In a polarized democracy representatives worry very little about the opposing party. The more constant they are with the party values the more approval they receive. People attempt to argue that polarization promotes the creation of safe seats within the House of Representatives.
Sociologists greatly clash in their respective perspectives on the view of social policies which ultimately makes it hard to understand the true extent of what they do to our society. Therefore, I will be examining just how worthy these views about social policies and their effects of the family are. As item 2B states, feminists argue that social policies assume that the ideal family is a patriarchal one, where they are created in order to continue the trend of a man in control of the family, in a nuclear family which involves a married heterosexual couple as well as children, own or adopted. This is shown in ways such as; giving women custody over children in courts by assuming that they are caregivers and making it harder for women to claim social benefits as they are seen to be dependent on men. One main example of the way in which feminists argue that social policies continue this trend of patriarchy was presented by Lamb.
Because people that do not vote can be disadvantaged it is important to understand who is more likely to vote to better help them. According to Harder and Krosnick (2008) there are many different demographic, psychological and social factors that can cause a person to vote or not to vote. Indicating factors such as race, education, income and age are some of the standout reasons of why a person chooses to vote or not to vote. Understanding why people do not vote could be of specific interest to elected officials because they are tasked with representing the entire population. By understanding why a person chooses to participate in the electoral process it could help officials to increase voter turnout so that public policy benefits all of the population, not just a select
What does a political candidate need to do to win voter confidence? 2. What are the traps that cause political candidates to lose credibility among the population? The answer to the first question is that voters must identify with the candidate. Four things come together for this to happen.
Assignment One In Miles Benson article, Political consultants tailor candidates’ message to what the voters want to hear, he has several opinions and views on how political consultants, opinion polls and negative advertising affect how politicians want us to feel, react and ultimately vote. It seems that research has discovered that if a politician talks in platitudes he has a better chance of getting himself or herself elected. Being specific seems to detrimental because too many questions are asked. Bill Hillsman, a media expert said that, “obviously, a candidate seeking votes is going to emphasize shared concerns and issues that are popular. But all too often political leadership simply means finding out what the people want and telling them you’ll give it to them” (Benson A3).
Not only focus and care about the people, like Obama displays, but also for the politicians to change their attitude and views. Obama suggest that “each would require a change in attitude among those in power. Each would demand that individual politicians challenge the existing order; loosen their hold on incumbency; fight with their friends as well with their enemies of abstract ideas in which the public appears to have little interest. Each would require from men and women a willingness to risk what they already have.” (134) According to Obama these
Media acts as a medium though which information is transferred. The primary function of the media is to provide information to the voter, as the voters rely on the media to tell them about the efficacy of the public policy in action. If the voter is dissatisfied by the quality of public service, then she can hold the politician in-charge accountable by not voting for that politician in the next election. It is important to note that any politician or political party would always try their best to get re-elected in the next
Individual political parties sprang up from the demand to be able to compare and classify competing politicians based on their views; it become important to know, for example, which early politicians favored a strong central government (Federalists) or a more distributed government (Jeffersonian Republicans). Over time, these parties evolved to be rallying systems whereby politicians could galvanize their supporters. In the process, however, an implicit social contract was formed: individuals who subscribe to a party give up their right to make individual decisions on many issues in exchange for a strong party to fight for the
As stated earlier, political socialization has agents but they are separated into two categories. These include both primary and secondary factors. The family, school, media, events, and peers are considered primary. While the church, workplace, and governments are considered secondary. All of these agents have informal and/or formal components to their state of being that explains their importance to the process of political learning.