Decline

1
Decline??

• Mark Stephan
• Political Behavior
• PS 417

2
Last class and Todays Class

• Pattersons Vanishing Voters
• Pattersons prescription for improvement
• Decline? Rosenstone and Hansen weigh in
• Decline? Norris view

3
Chapter Six from Patterson

• Model campaign page 182
• What do people think?
• Any other ideas to add?

4
Decline? Rosenstone and Hansen

• Relative influences of resources, interests, and
  mobilization
  
• A reminder of what it is not about.
• Electoral activities from the 1960s to 1980s
• Table 7-1 (page 215) what stands out?
• Three changes..

5
Decline?

• Whats the story for African-American voters?
• Rise? Decline?

6
Democratic Phoenix

• Why does Norris use this term phoenix?
• Whats her basic argument going to be?
• That said, is there a case to be made for civic
  decline?
  
• Participation and representative democracy does
  the former ensure the latter??
  

7
News Flash!!

• ANWR decision moves forward
• Kyrgyzstan protests, presidential resignation
• Some examples of sources for news..
• www.guardian.co.uk
• www.islam-online.net
• www.jpost.com
• http//english.aljazeera.net/

8
Data sources and more..

• Similarities and differences between Norris book
  and R/H and F/Z
  
• Where does she get her data?
• Indexes
• Human development how defined?
• Correlation to democratic development?