Retrospective evaluations

Retrospective Evaluation correlates with the effect of the civilians reaction on the Presidents decisions and policies dealing with the management of his or hers respective countries. This tends to deal with past actions and events rather than uncertain hopes for the future. This belief revolves around the term of partisanship, which briefly means party identifiers. Retrospective evaluations can be traced back to the effect of party loyalty and politicians views towards this party. This has proved prominent in modern political history. Most recently the major switch in congress during the election of the end of 2006. The republicans had the majority of the seats since bushes administration started in 2000. Years passed as Bush’s (along with the Republican’s party) reputation severely declined. As political scientist foresaw, there was major realignment among Americans. Some republicans like Mike Bloomberg, the mayor of New York, left the republican party and joined the independent green party in 2007. Other politicians have developed some negative views towards their own party, both democrats and republicans. In some cases party identification can be stable enough to withstand an individual’s mishaps or bad judgment on an issue. Another past event was during 20th century when the long existing southern Democratic Party consisting of southern white conservatives joined the Republican Party in spite of the democratic administrations handling of race issues. These days in present time it is still the strength of Party Identification that plays a dominant role on the basis of determining which candidate a voter will support. The party’s influence and outlooks towards certain political issues tend to attract voters who belong to that respective party.

Main Menu

See Also

Main Menu