Politics term paper
| [...] "The activities of J. S. Woodsworth in the 1930s can only be understood if we begin with his earlier life and see how he became involved in politics in the first place. Woodsworth was the son of a Methodist minister who moved from Ontario to Manitoba in the early days of settlement. He himself went into the ministry and took up his first charge in 1900. But Woodsworth, as a young man, reflected a new strain in the religious faith of that day. For him the gospel was the social gospel-the belief that Christians should work for a Christian society here on earth rather than in the hereafter. Woodsworth as a student did settlement work in the slums of London. A few years after his ordination he went to the All People's Mission in North Winnipeg, where he worked with new immigrants and with the displaced and rejected who congregate in urban slums." [...] |
| [...] "The very nature of the two major U.S. parties has also constrained the development of party theory due to the problem of defining the boundaries of a party to serve as a unit of analysis. In Europe, there is a better developed sense of formal party membership, sometimes reflected in membership fees, that helps define who belongs to a party. Although most states record party registration for purposes of conducting primary elections, the concept of party members clearly has no national applicability, and the term, "dues-paying member," sounds foreign to our ears. American scholars have attempted to deal with this boundary problem by distinguishing among the "party in the organization" and "party in the government" as opposed to "party in the electorate." But this piecemeal attempt to resolve the problem has not proven to be theoretically fruitful (Schlesinger 1991)." [...] |
| [...] "The anomaly was not lost on conservative strategists and activists. And, as many saw it, the finger of blame pointed squarely at the Republican Party. The GOP had been the opponent of Democratic liberalism for half a century, yet now when liberalism had lost its popular appeal the Republicans were still unable to win and hold the allegiance of the country's conservative majority. Clearly, something must be dreadfully wrong with the Republican Party. To a group of young conservative activists, a new and aggressive strategy was called for, and they formed a network of organizations to pursue it--a network that they, and the media, came to call the New Right. Like any such political label, the term is imprecise, and the boundaries of the movement are not clearly demarked. At its heart, however, are political groups and forces that are quite distinct from the traditional conservatives of the Old Right, who had dominated the Republican Party since the days of Lincoln." [...] |
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