LARTS 344 Issues & Elections: Electoral Politics
Issues and Elections studies the methods, issues, and goals of contemporary American politics, focusing on party efforts to identify critical political questions within the framework of national elections, to mobilize voters - both supporters and the unaffiliated - through these issues, and to win electoral office. The class will read about and discuss the role of political leadership and party organization, as well as voter interest (and apathy); we will also look at the role of issues, and of images, in the media politics of contemporary America.