Prompt: Should mainstream parties change the way they "play the game" in response to niche parties? In other words: do mainstream parties need to worry about the impact that these small, fringe, outsiders have on electoral politics? Personally, I believe that mainstream parties do need to worry about the small, fringe, outsiders and their impacts on electoral politics because there's little to no understanding of macro-level behavior. Although there is little to no understanding when it comes to this concept, niche parties can influence political parties through accountability through ownership, changing demographics, causing vote splitting, impacting political culture, etc. At most, as stated in class, there is only one political party decision-making …show more content…
In order to address these issues, niche parties gain a specific audience that is made up of those who feel oppressed/marginalized under mainstream politics and often feel ignored. This results in the need for mainstream parties to adapt their policies in order to address other issues that need resolving to help serve all of those issues that have been overlooked and to compete effectively. Apart from this, vote splitting also has a role in electoral politics as niche parties can impact the votes from mainstream parties and can lead to vote splitting. To avoid this, mainstream parties need to use strategic tactics and score alliances with each other to obtain a coalition, another reason why they must worry about the impact of these “small” outsiders on electoral politics. On the same note, this also impacts their demographics when niche parties have gained enough traction among specific demographic groups. This can happen when they have gained the audience of younger voters or ethnic minorities, this results in mainstream parties needing to adapt to the demographic shifts that have been impacted by the niche parties and need to ensure that their policies fall within the following
it be Budweiser’s infamous horses, or the “Bud Light Party” commercials, one thing remains constant, they all have a place in memory. Guinness Beer decided to push the envelope, so to speak, and display something different. There are many classifications of the word different, yet it is the audiences job to determine their own classification. The commercial starts off with, in my opinion, a great representation of a wheel chair basketball game, among six players all in wheelchairs of course, overshadowed
casino safety. Is it safe to play at an online casino? Times have changed; online casinos no longer feature on the fringe of the Internet. In fact, online casinos are now a key feature of both pop culture and the mainstream. After years of being like the Wild West, the industry as a whole has cleaned up its act. Part of this change has included upgrading the level of security featured at online casinos. While security should be evaluated on a
showed up, the first thought was, that is a threat. It didn’t matter what the outsider’s intentions were, they were seen as a threat to the known way of life. It was seen as predators were coming to destroy everything and everyone you hold dear. Fear of the unknown can cause drastic action form both sides involved. Though we are more civilized in the way we deal with conflict now, the basic idea still remains. Wars of opinions are raged all over the internet and no subject is more explosive, especially
Pedagogical classroom instruction as a means to social change: The Academic English Mastery Program (AEMP) The Academic English Mastery Program (AEMP) is a groundbreaking approach to ensuring the language and literacy acquisition of speakers of non-standard varieties in parts of the Los Angeles Unified School District. Headed by former speech pathologist Dr. Noma LeMoine, AEMP is a response to an article entitled, “The Children Can No Longer Wait: An Action Plan to End Low Achievement and Establish
inspiration, and current events play a tremendously significant role. Hip hop is a form of art which can be expressed through rap songs, break-dancing, and graffiti art. The culture has become so popular that it has entered today’s fashion and modern language. Hip hop music is an extremely large part of today’s generation and a global genre, which influences the generation all over the world. The culture has entered everywhere from TV commercials to toys, video games, and also fashion industry. “Hip
The Role of the Media in Australia Osborne and Lewis state that [a] preeminent theme in Australian thinking about the use of communication is the extent to which it has been viewed as a form of control. There has been concern in recent times of the enormous power communication holds as an agent of societal control. This is due to a number of factors, such the media mogul dominated media, which promotes a very conservative view and does not allow for alternate opinions to be voiced. The wide-reaching
characters of Frank and Rita change throughout the play and what is Russell’s purpose of using the technique?” Educating Rita is a play written by Willy Russell who was born in Liverpool, Whiston. “I really don’t want to write plays which are resigned, menopausal, despairing and whining. I don’t want to use any medium as a platform for displaying the smallness and hopelessness of man.” Willy Russell wrote Educating Rita as a comedy, he wanted to write a funny play to be watched and not to
Unsurprisingly, Huxley believed his depiction was, stating in a letter to Orwell that “ruling oligarchy will find less arduous and wasteful ways of governing and of satisfying its lust for power, and these ways will resemble those which I described in Brave New World” (Huxley). Was Huxley correct in his assumption or simply overconfident in his belief? In my perspective, Huxley’s notion that Brave New World is more accurate
The Global Media Bias Crisis and Brave New World All pieces of information, unless hard fact, are biased. Bias may arise intentionally or not, but either way it is imperative that readers, watchers, and listeners are aware when they come in contact with media bias. Although it is unrealistic for the media to be completely objective in every issue they cover, media bias is a prevalent issue in the world today, and will continue on unless consumers of the media become truly educated about the world
These laws of segregation, otherwise knows as Jim Crow laws, applied to almost every aspect of southern American society, including sports. During this time period, African-American athletes had to resort to second class organizational leagues to play in, this included the famous baseball player Jackie Robinson. Much of this institutionalized racism Since early on, Jackie Robinson believed that God had a special purpose for him. Coming from a Christian background, Jackie Robinson believed that God
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The modernization of China has played a key role in the changes of popular culture in China. With modernization, the people of China were introduced to different forms and styles of music which the Chinese studied and incorporated into their own music. They felt that the 'Westernization of their music' would make it more modern. With the rise of popular music came a means of identification, and with that, regulations to control its effect on society as a whole. And finally, the blurring of boundaries
Google Play Store is the primary application store installed on Android devices that comply with Google's compatibility requirements and license the Google Mobile Services software.[3][65] Google Play Store allows users to browse, download and update applications published by Google and third-party developers; As of July 2013, there are more than one million applications available for Android in Play Store.[66] As of May 2013, 48 billion applications have been installed from Google Play Store[67]
In the late Seventies, America became shocked and outraged by the rape, mutilation, and murder of over a dozen young, beautiful girls. The man who committed these murders, Ted Bundy, was later apprehended and executed. During his detention in various penitentiaries, he was mentally probed and prodded by psychologist and psychoanalysts hoping to discover the root of his violent actions and sexual frustrations. Many theories arose in attempts to explain the motivational factors behind his murderous
will be encouraged to similar behavior (Wikipedia). More than five decades later the song remains the same; not much seems to have changed in society’s mentality. Parents fear that violent video games will make their children into raging psychopaths, and that a boy will turn out to be a homosexual if he plays with dolls and not toy cars or action figures. Even the books being read to children are censored and romanticized, not to mention all the Disney movies that have nothing to do with the original