R&S - Research Studies Anatolia Journal

Yazarlar: Oğuzhan MANİOĞLU

Konular:Siyasi Bilimler

DOI:10.33723/rs.714505

Anahtar Kelimeler:USA,Republicans,Democrats,US Politics

Özet: Although there are many political parties in the US political system, main-stream political party system and tradition in the USA has organized through two big parties: Republicans and Democrats. This study mainly aims at analyzing main political cleavages between these two political parties. In order to achieve this, scientific articles, books, party political guides, and international journals are examined to explore and compare these two parties’ deep-rooted social cleavages on some controversial US-political-issues such as climate change, migration and migrants, individual armament, capital punishment (death penalty), and abortion. As for the possible findings on this research, it is likely to recount that these five issues to be examined constitute the basis of main political decompositions between two big parties and thus, establish the basis of ideological controversies in the US politics. In this vein, in order to explore US politics and be able to comment on voting behaviour, it is worth to make analysis in the context of these issues through the approaches of these two main-stream political parties. 

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