Please either read the attached texts and or procure accurate answers by other means to answer the corresponding short answer reading questions. Thank you.
Week 1 readings
Masket and Noel:
Why do we have parties?
What is a party (particularly in the US)?
Are the parties actually polarizing?
Kates, Ladd, and Tucker:
How do the parties differ in their attitudes about political institutions?
Bacon:
What does asymmetric politics look like?
What defines Republicans?
What defines Democrats?
Skuldt:
How do third party candidates affect political outcomes?
Why is this different in the US as compared to other nations, especially other democracies?