US POLITICS

Political Parties in the United States

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Political Parties in the United States

Democrats and Republicans

From outside the U.S., many believe that the difference between Republicans and Democrats is similar to that between two famous cola, or are conservative Republicans and Democrats are liberal, but these visions extraordinarily surprised American political scientists. Moreover, according to a recent study, experts believe that the Democrats are divided into at least five "parties", and Republicans four (Ladd, Carll, Lipset, 1975, pp. 101-114). The differences in core values ??such as individual responsibility and personal morality, the size and scope of government, and the proper role of religion in public life make up political dialogue and divide parties in unexpected ways," said an investigation and survey developed with participation of "The Washington Post", Harvard University and the Kaiser Foundation.

With party loyalty in doubt for years, leaders and party activists often intersect, to the extent that definitions such as liberal and conservative Democrat Republican is a fact and not a contradiction in terms. Topics ranging from attitudes to racism and civil rights to abortion and welfare, or health services shape the views of different groups and partisan classifications difficult. The new policy requires a new form values ??to see the major political parties, not two monolithic armies united by common beliefs and goals, but as an amalgam of smaller groups and less strong links," wrote the pollsters Richard Morin and Claudia Deane (Broder, 1972, pp. 217-220).

The study found that Republicans can be divided into four groups, including one that is closer to traditional Democrats who support a strong government to regulate business, morally flexible and keep religion separate from government. Among the Democrats is the counterpart, with a group of rigid morality, openly opposed to abortion and gay rights in favor of a reduction in the federal government and greater religious influence in politics (Fuchs, Krueger, Poterba, 1998, pp. 387-425). Thus, the profiles described by the work imply the existence of "libertarian Democrats" who hate the government but further disdain involvement of religion in politics, moralists and traditionalists reject, and promote public welfare cuts, is estimated to be 9% of Democrats. The younger groups, defined as “new generation Democrats” are about 15% of Democrats and are the least religious, less traditional and more morally flexible, accepting the use of marijuana, approve of homosexuality, and most claims to be tolerant of adultery. At least half feel ...