The U.S. Political System

Lecture by Steven Vogel

[AbhijeetKothari]

You explained the US political system very clearly and concisely. Thank you!

[kenbudapest]

I am a Japanese living in USA. I think this video is extremely useful and understandable! Thank you!

[learningliterature]

Your explain very clearly, I'm watching this from pakistan, in order to get ideas in political science, great effort sir

[infinity]

One thing i would add, even though the focus on this was the US system, although Japan does have many parties, they are techincally a functioning one party system since the liberal democratic party has been in power for most of modern Japanese history, kind of like Mexico where although smaller parties doe exist and sometimes trade off power, Mexico has basically had 1 party rule for most of its political history

[rogeriacatto]

Now, I picked up a little more about the political system in the US. This video or better, this Lesson helped me a lot. Thanks!

[LOUIv]

Ive been back and forth online, listening to the same information from different YouTube videos about the same subject... And I gotta say, huge kudos to the gentleman in the video.

The way he expressed and compared the systems just made all info click (and the visuals helped too of course).

Im truly grateful for this video and appreciate how refreshing it is to relearn these things. Thank you for sharing!

[fatimabukhari]

It's such an amazing video...I was baffled by the essays on Internet..and just in 13 minutes..I got what i wanted to understand..thanks much👍🏻

[donwhitmire]

The American president is elected directly by the people. I left this site after that and revisited why we have an electoral college.

[dexianggggg]

thanks for your explanation on the topic which is hard to take if I search out on the internet on my own

[salmaokttar]

Thank you so much, you video is absolutely insightful and informative 👌

[mycents]

This will work great as a homeschool lesson about how the US government is structured, thank you!

[islammurtazaev]

I liked how unbiased he was when describing two political systems and parties in US.

[jhca]

3:00 The one exception in the US system is the Vice President.

[anwarkhan]

Thank you for your explanation, it really has cleared some confusions.

[lisa.e]

US political system is similar to the Crabs political .

A Crab will alway pull down others crabs trying to escape from the basket. Finally not crab escape from the slaughtering .

[bigdog]

Non compulsory voting contributes to the hyper polarisation in the US. Fear is used to motivate people instead.

[Phytom]

A question I've always had is, what if a senator of very powerful state, for example Texas, which has more resources, military and land power than most other states in the US wants to make a proposal to the senate, does this senator also have more negotiation power in congress as for example the Senator of Maine or Rhode Island, as it would be in world politics, because he could for example cut off all oil, or would the federal government not allow that?

[mahdisaby]

its better to look in the camera more often to increase the knowledge transport more efficiently. but thanks a lot for creating this video, hope you more success in your life

[eksiderece]

You saved my mid-term grade Mr. Vogel, thank you so much

[evanj]

Many Americans do not know or do not think about the fact that it is unusual for a president (or prime minister or other terms in other countries, hereafter "leader") and legislature to be elected independently. The leader's power normally comes his party and other parties having a majority coalition in the legislature. Some unusual features like how the federal government is elected including the Electoral College for president come from the Constitution, while other features such as the two party system are not written. The United States has stability in that going back to 1788, every even year has federal elections that were never postponed or canceled due to war or any other reason, elections cannot be added, and elections are sufficient to determine control of the Senate and House without legislators having to make coalitions. Since the Republican party was created in 1854, every election has had the same parties be by far the two most popular parties.