Mr. Rentaro Iida, Ph.D Candidate, Georgetown University

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A question of party realignment and interest groups • How do parties change their issue positions? – My argument: “A small set of single issue groups and ideas they advocated had impacts on how parties stand on a issue.” – Case: Over the past three decades, the Republican party and Democrat party have become increasingly divided on the abortion issue. – Theory & method: “Networks”
Why should we care? • Arguments about a few political elites including interest groups with ideological motives, that doesn’t necessarily have direct ties to mass public, have become overrepresented in the US politics (cf. Skocpol 2004). • They may be undermining representative democracy by skipping party (electoral) process, causing American politics to be polarized. (cf. Fiorina et al. 2005, Crenson and Ginsberg 2002)
Page 1: Interest Groups, Party Polarization
Page 5 and 6: Challenges on data • Data on inte
Page 7 and 8: Alternatives: Network Analysis & Th
Page 9 and 10: What should we expect from the data
Page 11 and 12: Count of Ties at Individual Speaker
Page 13: Eigenvector Centrality • A measur
Page 17: Conclusions • We should theorize

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