https://padlet.com/cathy_dowd/437w1n2biz9dqtbf Gold Cohort 12/4 en-us 2020-11-22 21:39:40 UTC 2020-12-04 17:10:39 UTC hello@padlet.com pmt211 https://padlet.com/cathy_dowd/437w1n2biz9dqtbf/wish/988127303 “I am therefore led to conclude that the right of association is almost as inalienable as the right of personal liberty...)”(413)]]> 2020-12-04 16:22:02 UTC https://padlet.com/cathy_dowd/437w1n2biz9dqtbf/wish/988127303 pmt211 https://padlet.com/cathy_dowd/437w1n2biz9dqtbf/wish/988128222 “Lobbyists are the foot soldiers and the friends of the people who run the government”(427)]]> 2020-12-04 16:22:14 UTC https://padlet.com/cathy_dowd/437w1n2biz9dqtbf/wish/988128222 pmt211 https://padlet.com/cathy_dowd/437w1n2biz9dqtbf/wish/988130809 2020-12-04 16:22:47 UTC https://padlet.com/cathy_dowd/437w1n2biz9dqtbf/wish/988130809 amp211 https://padlet.com/cathy_dowd/437w1n2biz9dqtbf/wish/988133748 “Want a separate nation within the nation, separate gov within the gov”]]> 2020-12-04 16:23:25 UTC https://padlet.com/cathy_dowd/437w1n2biz9dqtbf/wish/988133748 https://padlet.com/cathy_dowd/437w1n2biz9dqtbf/wish/988133973 What does de Tocqueville mean when he says “On one point, however, this perilous liberty offers a security against dangers of another kind; in countries where associations are free, secret societies are unknown. In America, there are numerous factions, but no conspiracies…” ?]]> 2020-12-04 16:23:27 UTC https://padlet.com/cathy_dowd/437w1n2biz9dqtbf/wish/988133973 https://padlet.com/cathy_dowd/437w1n2biz9dqtbf/wish/988134945 “The right of associating with such views is very analogous to the liberty of unlicensed writing; but societies thus formed possess more authority than the press. When an opinion is represented by a society, it necessarily assumes a more exact and explicit form”]]> 2020-12-04 16:23:40 UTC https://padlet.com/cathy_dowd/437w1n2biz9dqtbf/wish/988134945 pmt211 https://padlet.com/cathy_dowd/437w1n2biz9dqtbf/wish/988135103 What does he mean by government within the government?]]> 2020-12-04 16:23:42 UTC https://padlet.com/cathy_dowd/437w1n2biz9dqtbf/wish/988135103 https://padlet.com/cathy_dowd/437w1n2biz9dqtbf/wish/988135768 “The most natural privilege of man, next to the right of acting for himself, is that of combining his exertions with those of his fellow creatures, and of acting in common with them. I am therefore led to conclude that the right of association is almost as inalienable as the right of personal liberty…”

]]> 2020-12-04 16:23:51 UTC https://padlet.com/cathy_dowd/437w1n2biz9dqtbf/wish/988135768 https://padlet.com/cathy_dowd/437w1n2biz9dqtbf/wish/988136630 “An association unites the efforts of minds which have a tendency to diverge in one single channel and urges them vigorously towards the one single end which it points out”]]> 2020-12-04 16:24:02 UTC https://padlet.com/cathy_dowd/437w1n2biz9dqtbf/wish/988136630 amp211 https://padlet.com/cathy_dowd/437w1n2biz9dqtbf/wish/988136744 “At the top of the hierarchy are members of congress and cabinet secretaries. Next come congressional and cabinet staff. Then at the bottom come lobbyists" (428).

]]> 2020-12-04 16:24:03 UTC https://padlet.com/cathy_dowd/437w1n2biz9dqtbf/wish/988136744 hsp211 https://padlet.com/cathy_dowd/437w1n2biz9dqtbf/wish/988136912 2020-12-04 16:24:06 UTC https://padlet.com/cathy_dowd/437w1n2biz9dqtbf/wish/988136912 https://padlet.com/cathy_dowd/437w1n2biz9dqtbf/wish/988137554 What exactly are lobbyists' relationship to lawmakers/decision makers? What are they responsible for in the government and the officials' workload? 

]]> 2020-12-04 16:24:15 UTC https://padlet.com/cathy_dowd/437w1n2biz9dqtbf/wish/988137554 https://padlet.com/cathy_dowd/437w1n2biz9dqtbf/wish/988138437 “Corporate lobbyists have so suffused the culture of the city that at times they seem to be part of the government itself. One result is that corporate America, once a perennial sacrificial lamb when it came to government crackdowns, has become something of a sacred cow”.

]]> 2020-12-04 16:24:26 UTC https://padlet.com/cathy_dowd/437w1n2biz9dqtbf/wish/988138437 amp211 https://padlet.com/cathy_dowd/437w1n2biz9dqtbf/wish/988138540 “A compelling narrative such as the horton saga controls our interpretation of data by offering a plausible, internally coherent story that resonates w the audience” (486)]]> 2020-12-04 16:24:27 UTC https://padlet.com/cathy_dowd/437w1n2biz9dqtbf/wish/988138540 https://padlet.com/cathy_dowd/437w1n2biz9dqtbf/wish/988138632 How do lobbyists decide what to take on?]]> 2020-12-04 16:24:28 UTC https://padlet.com/cathy_dowd/437w1n2biz9dqtbf/wish/988138632 hhw211 https://padlet.com/cathy_dowd/437w1n2biz9dqtbf/wish/988138750 2020-12-04 16:24:30 UTC https://padlet.com/cathy_dowd/437w1n2biz9dqtbf/wish/988138750 https://padlet.com/cathy_dowd/437w1n2biz9dqtbf/wish/988139263 “The citizen of the United States is taught from his earliest infancy to rely upon his own exertions, in order to resist the evils and the difficulties of life; he looks upon the social authority with an eye of mistrust and anxiety, and he only claims its assistance when he is quite unable to shift without it”

]]> 2020-12-04 16:24:36 UTC https://padlet.com/cathy_dowd/437w1n2biz9dqtbf/wish/988139263 https://padlet.com/cathy_dowd/437w1n2biz9dqtbf/wish/988139401 Is it legal to push out ads that have false information or illegitimate references/inferences; “The furlough ad contains three false statements and invites one illegitimate inference”? Have the rules about campaign ads changed since Bush v. Dukakis? 

]]> 2020-12-04 16:24:38 UTC https://padlet.com/cathy_dowd/437w1n2biz9dqtbf/wish/988139401 https://padlet.com/cathy_dowd/437w1n2biz9dqtbf/wish/988140310 “Like pack rats, voters gather bits and pieces of political information and store them in a single place. Lost in the storage is a clear recall of where this or that “fact” came from”.

]]> 2020-12-04 16:24:51 UTC https://padlet.com/cathy_dowd/437w1n2biz9dqtbf/wish/988140310 hsp211 https://padlet.com/cathy_dowd/437w1n2biz9dqtbf/wish/988140719 “The citizen of the United States is taught from his earliest infancy to rely upon his own exertions in order to resist the evils and the difficulties of life; he looks upon social authority with an eye of mistrust and anxiety, and he only claims its assistance when he is quite unable to shift without it.”]]> 2020-12-04 16:24:56 UTC https://padlet.com/cathy_dowd/437w1n2biz9dqtbf/wish/988140719 hhw211 https://padlet.com/cathy_dowd/437w1n2biz9dqtbf/wish/988140905 2020-12-04 16:24:59 UTC https://padlet.com/cathy_dowd/437w1n2biz9dqtbf/wish/988140905 pes211 https://padlet.com/cathy_dowd/437w1n2biz9dqtbf/wish/988141072 "The most natural privilege of man, next to the right of acting for himself, is that of combining his exertions with those of his fellow creatures, and of acting in common with them."]]> 2020-12-04 16:25:01 UTC https://padlet.com/cathy_dowd/437w1n2biz9dqtbf/wish/988141072 hhw211 https://padlet.com/cathy_dowd/437w1n2biz9dqtbf/wish/988141842 2020-12-04 16:25:11 UTC https://padlet.com/cathy_dowd/437w1n2biz9dqtbf/wish/988141842 https://padlet.com/cathy_dowd/437w1n2biz9dqtbf/wish/988142009 What does DeTocqueville mean when he says that in countries where interest groups exist, secret societies are unknown?]]> 2020-12-04 16:25:13 UTC https://padlet.com/cathy_dowd/437w1n2biz9dqtbf/wish/988142009 https://padlet.com/cathy_dowd/437w1n2biz9dqtbf/wish/988142050 what does he mean by the third degree of association? ]]> 2020-12-04 16:25:13 UTC https://padlet.com/cathy_dowd/437w1n2biz9dqtbf/wish/988142050 https://padlet.com/cathy_dowd/437w1n2biz9dqtbf/wish/988142192 "Corporate America, once a perennial sacrificial lamb when it came to government crackdowns, has become something of a sacred cow"]]> 2020-12-04 16:25:15 UTC https://padlet.com/cathy_dowd/437w1n2biz9dqtbf/wish/988142192 https://padlet.com/cathy_dowd/437w1n2biz9dqtbf/wish/988142657 2020-12-04 16:25:22 UTC https://padlet.com/cathy_dowd/437w1n2biz9dqtbf/wish/988142657 hhw211 https://padlet.com/cathy_dowd/437w1n2biz9dqtbf/wish/988143954 Does DeTocqueville support having a party system?]]> 2020-12-04 16:25:38 UTC https://padlet.com/cathy_dowd/437w1n2biz9dqtbf/wish/988143954 https://padlet.com/cathy_dowd/437w1n2biz9dqtbf/wish/988144324 2020-12-04 16:25:42 UTC https://padlet.com/cathy_dowd/437w1n2biz9dqtbf/wish/988144324 https://padlet.com/cathy_dowd/437w1n2biz9dqtbf/wish/988144656 "The citizen of the United States is taught from his earliest infancy to rely upon his own exertions in order to resist the evils and the difficulties of life; he looks upon social authority with an eye of mistrust and anxiety, and he only claims its assistance when he is quite unable to shift without it."]]> 2020-12-04 16:25:47 UTC https://padlet.com/cathy_dowd/437w1n2biz9dqtbf/wish/988144656 amp211 https://padlet.com/cathy_dowd/437w1n2biz9dqtbf/wish/988145176 It seemed kind of unclear in the reading is being a lobbyists considered a well respected job? Or is it viewed differently?]]> 2020-12-04 16:25:53 UTC https://padlet.com/cathy_dowd/437w1n2biz9dqtbf/wish/988145176 https://padlet.com/cathy_dowd/437w1n2biz9dqtbf/wish/988146315 What would a more in depth explanation reveal about why interest groups have a lesser impact on policy compared to other developed countries? ]]> 2020-12-04 16:26:09 UTC https://padlet.com/cathy_dowd/437w1n2biz9dqtbf/wish/988146315 https://padlet.com/cathy_dowd/437w1n2biz9dqtbf/wish/988146338 “They are the gang that couldn’t shoot straight, but they manage to hit their target often enough to make a difference”

]]> 2020-12-04 16:26:09 UTC https://padlet.com/cathy_dowd/437w1n2biz9dqtbf/wish/988146338 https://padlet.com/cathy_dowd/437w1n2biz9dqtbf/wish/988146458 Why does DeTocqueville feel so strongly about associations in the United States being less dangerous than those in Europe?]]> 2020-12-04 16:26:10 UTC https://padlet.com/cathy_dowd/437w1n2biz9dqtbf/wish/988146458 https://padlet.com/cathy_dowd/437w1n2biz9dqtbf/wish/988146515 Why have interest groups become so powerful compared to when this was written by DeTocqueville?]]> 2020-12-04 16:26:11 UTC https://padlet.com/cathy_dowd/437w1n2biz9dqtbf/wish/988146515 hsp211 https://padlet.com/cathy_dowd/437w1n2biz9dqtbf/wish/988147451 2020-12-04 16:26:24 UTC https://padlet.com/cathy_dowd/437w1n2biz9dqtbf/wish/988147451 amp211 https://padlet.com/cathy_dowd/437w1n2biz9dqtbf/wish/988148618 What do the different degree's of association mean?]]> 2020-12-04 16:26:40 UTC https://padlet.com/cathy_dowd/437w1n2biz9dqtbf/wish/988148618 hhw211 https://padlet.com/cathy_dowd/437w1n2biz9dqtbf/wish/988148733 2020-12-04 16:26:42 UTC https://padlet.com/cathy_dowd/437w1n2biz9dqtbf/wish/988148733 pmt211 https://padlet.com/cathy_dowd/437w1n2biz9dqtbf/wish/988148901 Wouldn’t you look at more than one source for information?]]> 2020-12-04 16:26:44 UTC https://padlet.com/cathy_dowd/437w1n2biz9dqtbf/wish/988148901 https://padlet.com/cathy_dowd/437w1n2biz9dqtbf/wish/988149036 Why do people working in the government listen to lobbyists?]]> 2020-12-04 16:26:45 UTC https://padlet.com/cathy_dowd/437w1n2biz9dqtbf/wish/988149036 https://padlet.com/cathy_dowd/437w1n2biz9dqtbf/wish/988149156 2020-12-04 16:26:47 UTC https://padlet.com/cathy_dowd/437w1n2biz9dqtbf/wish/988149156 hhw211 https://padlet.com/cathy_dowd/437w1n2biz9dqtbf/wish/988149759 2020-12-04 16:26:55 UTC https://padlet.com/cathy_dowd/437w1n2biz9dqtbf/wish/988149759 amp211 https://padlet.com/cathy_dowd/437w1n2biz9dqtbf/wish/988150876 Did Dukakis respond to the ads in anyway or try to take control of the narrative?]]> 2020-12-04 16:27:08 UTC https://padlet.com/cathy_dowd/437w1n2biz9dqtbf/wish/988150876 https://padlet.com/cathy_dowd/437w1n2biz9dqtbf/wish/988151117 "'If you spend your time with millionaires, you will begin to think like them.' Lobbyists provide the prism through which the government officials often make their decisions"]]> 2020-12-04 16:27:11 UTC https://padlet.com/cathy_dowd/437w1n2biz9dqtbf/wish/988151117 pmt211 https://padlet.com/cathy_dowd/437w1n2biz9dqtbf/wish/988151119 What did Dukakis do to defend himself against the Bush ad?]]> 2020-12-04 16:27:11 UTC https://padlet.com/cathy_dowd/437w1n2biz9dqtbf/wish/988151119 https://padlet.com/cathy_dowd/437w1n2biz9dqtbf/wish/988151130 Who regulates lobbying?]]> 2020-12-04 16:27:12 UTC https://padlet.com/cathy_dowd/437w1n2biz9dqtbf/wish/988151130 https://padlet.com/cathy_dowd/437w1n2biz9dqtbf/wish/988151517 How are lobbyists viewed as a whole? At times the reading made them seem like they were well respected and at other times it seemed like they were looked down upon ]]> 2020-12-04 16:27:17 UTC https://padlet.com/cathy_dowd/437w1n2biz9dqtbf/wish/988151517 pes211 https://padlet.com/cathy_dowd/437w1n2biz9dqtbf/wish/988152254 Do lobbyists call themselves lobbyists when speaking with lawmakers?]]> 2020-12-04 16:27:26 UTC https://padlet.com/cathy_dowd/437w1n2biz9dqtbf/wish/988152254 https://padlet.com/cathy_dowd/437w1n2biz9dqtbf/wish/988152350 “The fact that the memories are factually inaccurate does not diminish their power”]]> 2020-12-04 16:27:27 UTC https://padlet.com/cathy_dowd/437w1n2biz9dqtbf/wish/988152350 hsp211 https://padlet.com/cathy_dowd/437w1n2biz9dqtbf/wish/988153314 What does DeTocqueville mean by "tyranny of the majority"]]> 2020-12-04 16:27:39 UTC https://padlet.com/cathy_dowd/437w1n2biz9dqtbf/wish/988153314 https://padlet.com/cathy_dowd/437w1n2biz9dqtbf/wish/988153799 "Something nasty has greater power and influence than something nice"]]> 2020-12-04 16:27:46 UTC https://padlet.com/cathy_dowd/437w1n2biz9dqtbf/wish/988153799 https://padlet.com/cathy_dowd/437w1n2biz9dqtbf/wish/988153874 Did Dukakis try and explain himself? What advertisements did he run?]]> 2020-12-04 16:27:47 UTC https://padlet.com/cathy_dowd/437w1n2biz9dqtbf/wish/988153874 pes211 https://padlet.com/cathy_dowd/437w1n2biz9dqtbf/wish/988154302 What does he mean by interest groups throwing the nation into anarchy?]]> 2020-12-04 16:27:52 UTC https://padlet.com/cathy_dowd/437w1n2biz9dqtbf/wish/988154302 https://padlet.com/cathy_dowd/437w1n2biz9dqtbf/wish/988155751 Did Dukakis run any ads himself? And if so, what kind?

]]> 2020-12-04 16:28:11 UTC https://padlet.com/cathy_dowd/437w1n2biz9dqtbf/wish/988155751 https://padlet.com/cathy_dowd/437w1n2biz9dqtbf/wish/988156185 How does the reading relate to the tyranny of interest groups?]]> 2020-12-04 16:28:17 UTC https://padlet.com/cathy_dowd/437w1n2biz9dqtbf/wish/988156185 https://padlet.com/cathy_dowd/437w1n2biz9dqtbf/wish/988156543 “The citizen of the United States is taught from his earliest infancy to rely upon his own exertions in order to resist the evils and the difficulties of life; he looks upon social authority with an eye of mistrust and anxiety, and he only claims its assistance when he is quite unable to shift without it.”]]> 2020-12-04 16:28:22 UTC https://padlet.com/cathy_dowd/437w1n2biz9dqtbf/wish/988156543 https://padlet.com/cathy_dowd/437w1n2biz9dqtbf/wish/988156722 "They are the gang that couldn’t shoot straight, but they manage to hit their target often enough to make a difference”

]]> 2020-12-04 16:28:24 UTC https://padlet.com/cathy_dowd/437w1n2biz9dqtbf/wish/988156722 https://padlet.com/cathy_dowd/437w1n2biz9dqtbf/wish/988157009 "But of its approximately $140 billion in tax increases over 5 years, only 11% came from corporations. The rest came from individual, taxypaying families" (426)]]> 2020-12-04 16:28:28 UTC https://padlet.com/cathy_dowd/437w1n2biz9dqtbf/wish/988157009 hsp211 https://padlet.com/cathy_dowd/437w1n2biz9dqtbf/wish/988158334 How did Micheal Dukakis respond to Bush's ads?]]> 2020-12-04 16:28:45 UTC https://padlet.com/cathy_dowd/437w1n2biz9dqtbf/wish/988158334 pes211 https://padlet.com/cathy_dowd/437w1n2biz9dqtbf/wish/988160428 "Every lawmaker's chief interest is in getting reelected. So lobbyists see it as their job to persuade lawmakers that voters are on the lobbyists side"]]> 2020-12-04 16:29:10 UTC https://padlet.com/cathy_dowd/437w1n2biz9dqtbf/wish/988160428 https://padlet.com/cathy_dowd/437w1n2biz9dqtbf/wish/988161163 What did Dukakis do in response to these ads? Did he create his own ad? Did he give a speech to refute the ads? Or did he just not speak on the issue? ]]> 2020-12-04 16:29:20 UTC https://padlet.com/cathy_dowd/437w1n2biz9dqtbf/wish/988161163 https://padlet.com/cathy_dowd/437w1n2biz9dqtbf/wish/988162389 How did the Democratic party/Dakakis react to the Willie Horton ad?]]> 2020-12-04 16:29:36 UTC https://padlet.com/cathy_dowd/437w1n2biz9dqtbf/wish/988162389 https://padlet.com/cathy_dowd/437w1n2biz9dqtbf/wish/988165469 “What is shown is not what is seen, what is known is not what is believed”

]]> 2020-12-04 16:30:16 UTC https://padlet.com/cathy_dowd/437w1n2biz9dqtbf/wish/988165469 https://padlet.com/cathy_dowd/437w1n2biz9dqtbf/wish/988165561 "Televised images that elicit negative emotion result in better recall than those that evoke positive ones. As a result, attacks are better remembered than positive reasons for voting for a candidate. And dissatisfied, disapproving voters are more likely to appear at their polling place than more satisfied neighbors" (487)]]> 2020-12-04 16:30:17 UTC https://padlet.com/cathy_dowd/437w1n2biz9dqtbf/wish/988165561 hsp211 https://padlet.com/cathy_dowd/437w1n2biz9dqtbf/wish/988166111 Are there any rules that Lobbyists have to follow?]]> 2020-12-04 16:30:24 UTC https://padlet.com/cathy_dowd/437w1n2biz9dqtbf/wish/988166111 pes211 https://padlet.com/cathy_dowd/437w1n2biz9dqtbf/wish/988166693 How did Dukakis defend himself from the ads? Did he make any statements refuting their contents?]]> 2020-12-04 16:30:32 UTC https://padlet.com/cathy_dowd/437w1n2biz9dqtbf/wish/988166693 https://padlet.com/cathy_dowd/437w1n2biz9dqtbf/wish/988166844 "When evaluating 'social stimuli,' negative information carries more weight than positive information."]]> 2020-12-04 16:30:34 UTC https://padlet.com/cathy_dowd/437w1n2biz9dqtbf/wish/988166844 pes211 https://padlet.com/cathy_dowd/437w1n2biz9dqtbf/wish/988170721 "Like pack rats, voters gather bits and pieces of political information and store them in a single place. Lost in the storage is a clear recall of where this or that "fact" came from"]]> 2020-12-04 16:31:27 UTC https://padlet.com/cathy_dowd/437w1n2biz9dqtbf/wish/988170721 https://padlet.com/cathy_dowd/437w1n2biz9dqtbf/wish/988171639 2020-12-04 16:31:38 UTC https://padlet.com/cathy_dowd/437w1n2biz9dqtbf/wish/988171639 https://padlet.com/cathy_dowd/437w1n2biz9dqtbf/wish/988175061 If a politician's job is to be elected again, why would they listen to lobbyists so much when the public would benefit from other laws?]]> 2020-12-04 16:32:21 UTC https://padlet.com/cathy_dowd/437w1n2biz9dqtbf/wish/988175061 https://padlet.com/cathy_dowd/437w1n2biz9dqtbf/wish/988351704 Are there ways that this kind of false narrative building can be combatted successfully, and have they worked?]]> 2020-12-04 17:10:09 UTC https://padlet.com/cathy_dowd/437w1n2biz9dqtbf/wish/988351704