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Given the news media's focus on national issues and debates, voters might be expected to make decisions about state and local candidates based on their views of the national parties and presidential candidates. The editors and contributors of this book examine the 2020 elections in six Pennsylvania districts to explore the level of nationalization in campaigns for Congress and state legislature. pcntv.com/donate pcntv.com/membership-signup pcntv.com

Given the news media's focus on national issues and debates, voters might be expected to make decisions about state and local candidates based on their views of the national parties and presidential candidates. The editors and contributors of this book examine the 2020 elections in six Pennsylvania districts to explore the level of nationalization in campaigns for Congress and state legislature. <a href="https://pcntv.com/donate" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">pcntv.com/donate</a> <a href="https://pcntv.com/membership-signup" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">pcntv.com/membership-signup</a> <a href="https://pcntv.com" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">pcntv.com</a>

"Are All Politics Nationalized?" with Stephen Medvic, Matthew Schousen, and Berwood Yost

Stephen Medvic is the author of In Defense of Politicians: The Expectations Trap and Its Threat to Democracy (Routledge 2013). He is associate professor of government at Franklin and Marshall University.Medvic confronts the widespread dissatisfaction with Washington, Congress, and politicians from a new perspective. He argues that much of the antipathy towards politicians is based on faulty expectations, what he calls an “expectations trap”. The public wants often contradictory things from politicians: strongly held beliefs and the willingness to make deals; ambition and wisdom, but not so much of each that they are self-serving. Medvic calls for more realistic expectations of what function politicians play in a democracy to move beyond some of the current public frustrations. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

<a href="http://www.fandm.edu/stephen-medvic" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Stephen Medvic</a> is the author of <a href="http://www.amazon.com/dp/0415880459/?tag=newbooinhis-20" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">In Defense of Politicians: The Expectations Trap and Its Threat to Democracy </a>(Routledge 2013). He is associate professor of government at Franklin and Marshall University.Medvic confronts the widespread dissatisfaction with Washington, Congress, and politicians from a new perspective. He argues that much of the antipathy towards politicians is based on faulty expectations, what he calls an “expectations trap”. The public wants often contradictory things from politicians: strongly held beliefs and the willingness to make deals; ambition and wisdom, but not so much of each that they are self-serving. Medvic calls for more realistic expectations of what function politicians play in a democracy to move beyond some of the current public frustrations. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit <a href="https://megaphone.fm/adchoices" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">megaphone.fm/adchoices</a>

Stephen Medvic, “In Defense of Politicians: The Expectations Trap and Its Threat to Democracy” (Routledge, 2013)