Question:
Discuss about the Modern Congress.
Answer:
Plebiscitary politics is the new way of communicating with the public. Congress is suffering from the plebiscitary politics. According to Flanagan (2014), congress is supporting plebiscitary politics, as they want to indulge into direct interaction between the common public and the elected officials. Congress knows that public view is significant for the campaigns. Modern technology has dramatically increased plebiscitary politics (Philip and Panizza, 2013). Virtually all members of congress employ polling, talk shows, media appearances, satellite technology, face book, twitter, press releases, video press releases, blogs, video glob, email and mass mailings. As per Robert Wagner and the rise of New York City’s plebiscitary mayoralty: the tamer of the Tammany tiger, (2015), many members are regular guests on cable and radio talk shows. Many members of Congress have their own political action committees. Congress is taking assistance of the social media in order to govern effectively. Most recently, Social media has opened a bridleway for instant communication between the constituents and the elected members. According to The spirit of compromise: why governing demands it and campaigning undermines it (2012),The elected members of the congress assure programmatic benefit and provide services to the constituents in return of political support. Social media play a significant role in electing members and help them to publicize their perspective.
Congress with the assistance of social media they promote their views about the new changes they want to implement. Press releases help Congress to gain support of the voters and collect votes (Доценко 2014). Modern candidates of congress have to confront electoral system. State Law and the federal law govern the system. The constitution has members from both the chambers. In order to be elected the member has to be citizen of the state. Modern Congress follows new forms of organized influence. Congress refers to electoral campaign from where the representative of the committee is chosen and decision about the referendum is taken. Through the campaign candidate, share the idea that they want to promote if they come to power. Campaign message contains points about the policy issues (Fazal and Griffiths 2014). The campaign messages displays the ideas that the campaign supports and it is repeated frequently while campaigning in order to create an everlasting impression in the mind of the voters. Change congress is an objective to finish the perceived corruption that exists in Congress of United States (Hazan 2016). This initiative is taken by the congress to reduce the deformed influence of money in the legislative bodies. In recent years, congress has gone through conspicuous changes and has established changes in the ways of controlling the party. Poor relations between the members of the Congress were prominent few years ago (Meyer and Schoen 2015). Congress has developed strategic plan in order to target the voters directly. They derive the goals from the statements of the members. Congress members purposefully execute their professional duties as the elected officials (Karlsen and Skogerbo 2013). Members of the congress are active and very much successful in structuring legislations.
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