All Politics Are Not National States Are Powerful Summary
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The discussion taking place about weather national politics matter more than state politics have multiple reasons to support either argument. In this analysis, the problem being addressed in “All Politics Are Not National, States Are Powerful” is the argument that state politics within the nation are more preset and more important to the daily lives of Americans (Brown L., 2013). The article states that life in general is implemented within state boundaries such as owning property within the state, voting, and employment possibilities. Most importantly, the author states that the most critical part of the argument that state politics matter more than national politics is the fact that all individuals in the country follow and live by more state laws opposed to federal laws (Brown L., 2013). On the other hand, the article “The Federal Government Hold the Power” presented in this analysis discusses why national politics is …show more content…
In this essay, the author
- Analyzes how the article "all politics are not national, states are powerful" argues that state politics are more important to the daily lives of americans.
- Opines that the argument being addressed in this article has my support due to the fact that certain laws such as abortion laws and gun laws pertain within certain states.
- Opines that brown's article "all politics are not national, states are powerful" supports his argument when brown quotes james madison. madison stated that the first and most natural attachment of the people will be to the government of their respective states.
- Argues that judis' "the federal government hold the power" opposes my position of the argument due to the fact that states have tried weakening power of federal government, but the federal government overcame power regardless.
- Argues that state politics matters more than national politics because of how personally involved i am in state issues and laws as well as the rest of the nation.
- Cites burn, l. (2013, july 16). "all politics are not national, states are powerful".
Madison stated, “the first and most natural attachment of the people will be to the government of their respective states”. However, “The Federal Government Hold the Power” opposes my position of the argument due to the fact that Judis says that states have tried weakening power of federal government, but the federal government overcame power regardless. Judis is implicating that it was already determined that national politics had already had power over states when the constitution was being addressed in 1789. My position of the argument in this analysis is that state politics matters more than national politics because of how personally involved I am in state issues and laws as well as the rest of the nation. My position is correct in a sense that Americans follow and abide by state laws and are more politically involved in voting because of state actions rather than national
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In this essay, the author
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- Analyzes king's analysis of voter registration and turnout compared to political culture. political cultures open to individual participation, like moralist cultures, have less restrictive registration laws, discouraging community intervention. traditionalistic elitist idea of government limits involvement to those at the top of the social hierarchy.
- Describes hovey, kendra a., and h.a. hoviey's state fact finder 1999: rankings across.
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- Argues that nardulli and others have labeled elazar's political culture typology as impressionistic and difficult to replicate, questioning its utility.
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- Analyzes how elazar's culture ratings are based on partisan presidential vote, ideology, and control in state legislatures. moralist cultures view political participation as an activity available to the entire community.
- Explains that individualist states have more highly partisan ideologies, resulting in less divided government. moralists are more interested in the public welfare, using government as an instrument to promote programs.
- Analyzes how holbrook-provow and poe test different means of measuring political ideology. they determine roll-call voting to be the best indicator of state political culture, but it does not accurately indicate the ideology of the constituency.
- Analyzes how nardulli's evidence suggests that moralists encourage political participation the most. schiltz and rainey examine elazar’s hypotheses and explore the frequency of voting.
- Analyzes miller's analysis of government expenditures and states that it is valuable and accurate to use government spending as an indicator of political culture.
- Analyzes how traditionalists oppose large amounts of spending for education programs because of their negative view of the marketplace. education spending is often a reflection of innovativeness in states.
- Explains that individualist political cultures are unlikely to innovate new programs and limit government intervention, while traditionalists are conservative and try to maintain existing order.
- Explains the two broad categories of political behavior and policy outputs that distinguish data and identify trends in american states.
- Explains that correlation matrixes indicate parallel measures, with only one correlation greater than.70. voter turnout, income, and education spending are all significantly different across culture categories.
- Argues that elazar's moralist, individualist and traditionalist labels are more of an arbitrary classification than an empirical measurement.
- Describes elazar, daniel j., and crowell, thomas y. (1966).
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In this essay, the author
- Explains that political scientists analyze aggregated data on the 50 states using correlation and regressions methods. ideology is the position or attitude towards the government based on freedom versus equality.
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In this essay, the author
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In this essay, the author
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