Political Perspectives and Party Politics

Where on the Spectrum?

• What is a Political Perspective:

• Political spectrum

• Measures both the type of change desired and the time it takes to achieve it

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Conservatism • Traditional views

• What is considered tradition?

• George W. Bush

Liberalism• Progress and reform

• Change…but how quickly?

A Little of This and That• Liberals vs. Conservatives

• Most Americans somewhere in between Moderate Where is a moderate approach to

politics most effective?

• James Monroe

Franklin D. Roosevelt

Ronald Reagan

John Brown

Abraham Lincoln

Adolf Hitler

Political Perspectives in Parties

“There is nothing which I dread so much as a division of the republic into two great parties, each arranged under its leader, and concerting measures in opposition to each other. This, in my humble apprehension, is to be dreaded as the greatest political evil under our Constitution.”

-John Adams, 1789

U.S.= Multi Party SystemRepublicans and Democrats dominate U.S. politics

Republican: Conservatives Democratic: Liberal

Party Domination

Where on the Issues?

• Not all Republicans and Democrats vote the same way

• Depends on the issue

• Is Arizona a Republican or Democratic state?

References:• Slide 2-6: Marcie Hutchinson (2014), “The Political Spectrum,” Arizona State University, 2014

Studentnewsdaily.com (2010). “Conservative vs. Liberal Beliefs.”

StudentNewsDaily.com. Modified 2013. Accessed May 27, 2014.

http://www.studentnewsdaily.com/conservative-vs-liberal-beliefs/• Slide 3: Russell Kirk (1956). “Tradition.” A Program for Conservatives (Washington, D.C.: Regnery, 1956).

http://www.conservative.org/acu-f/tradition

Studentnewsdaily.com (2010). “Conservative vs. Liberal Beliefs.”

StudentNewsDaily.com. Modified 2013. Accessed May 27, 2014. http://www.studentnewsdaily.com/conservative-vs-liberal-beliefs/

• Slide 7: All images accessed through Library of Congress• Slide 9: “John Adams Quotes,” Good Reads. Accessed May 27, 2014, • Slide 10: Stephen Flanders (2007), “Political Parties,” The New Book of Knowledge, Grolier Online,

accessed May 24, 2014, http://www.scholastic.com/teachers/article/political-parties

Hutchinson, “Political Spectrum” • ushistory.org (2014), “Political Parties,” American Government Online Textbook, accessed May 24, 2014,

http://www.ushistory.org/gov/5a.asp• Slide 11: Andrea Caumont (2012), “Section 9: Trends in Party Affiliation,” Pew Research Center, accessed

May 24, 2014, http://www.people-press.org/2012/06/04/section-9-trends-in-party-affiliation/

Bibliography• Slide 7:

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