Basic Political Cleavages In the US Politics: Five Controversial Issues Between Democrats And Republicans

Year 2020, , 156 - 167, 30.04.2020

Oğuzhan Manioğlu

https://doi.org/10.33723/rs.714505

Cited By: 1

Abstract

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. 

Keywords

USA, Republicans, Democrats, US Politics

ABD SİYASETİNDEKİ TEMEL AYRIŞMA NOKTALARI: CUMHURİYETÇİ PARTİ VE DEMOKRAT PARTİ ARASINDAKİ BEŞ İHTİLAFLI KONU

Abstract

ABD siyasal sisteminde birçok siyasi parti yer almakla birlikte, ülkedeki ana-akım siyasi parti sistem ve geleneği, Demokrat Parti ve Cumhuriyetçi Parti olmak üzere iki büyük partinin etrafında şekillenmiştir. Bu çalışma, esas olarak anılan iki ana-akım siyasi parti arasındaki temel ideolojik ayrışma noktalarını analiz etmeyi amaçlamaktadır. Bu amacı gerçekleştirmek için, ABD’deki iki büyük partinin temel siyasi farklılıklarını analiz etmeyi amaçlayan bu çalışmada, bilimsel makalelerden, kitaplardan, parti politikaları rehberinden, uluslararası nitelikteki gazetelerden yararlanılarak, iklim değişikliği, göç konusu ve göçmenler, bireysel silahlanma, idam cezası ve kürtaj gibi genel manada ABD’de siyasetinde üzerinde derin uyuşmazlıklar bulunan sosyal konularda Cumhuriyetçi Parti ve Demokrat Parti bakış açıları ve politikaları karşılaştırılacaktır. Analiz edilen bu beş konunun iki büyük parti arasındaki temel siyasi ayrışmaları ve böylece ABD siyasetindeki temel ideolojik çatışmaların ortaya konması, çalışmanın muhtemel bulgularını oluşturmaktadır. Bu bağlamda, ABD siyasetini anlamak ve seçmen davranışını yorumlamak için, bu konulara iki ana-akım siyasi partinin yaklaşımları üzerinden analizler yapmak yerinde olacaktır

Keywords

ABD, ABD Siyaseti, Cumhuriyetçiler, Demokratlar

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