Inevitable Party - Why Attempts to Kill Party System Fail How They Weaken Democracy

Informationen zum Autor Seth Masket is associate professor and chair of the Department of Political Science at the University of Denver. His research and teaching focus on party nominations, state legislatures, campaigns and elections, and social networks. He is the author of No Middle Ground: How Informal Party Organizations Control Nominations and Polarize Legislatures. He is a founding contributor to the Vox.com blog "Mischiefs of Faction" and writes a weekly column for Pacific Standard. Klappentext Why do anti-party reforms, from campaign finance reform to nonpartisan legislatures, tend to fail? The Inevitable Party looks at the structure and behavior of parties to understand why they are so resilient, and examines how various attempts to undermine them just end up hurting democracy. Zusammenfassung Why do anti-party reforms, from campaign finance reform to nonpartisan legislatures, tend to fail? The Inevitable Party looks at the structure and behavior of parties to understand why they are so resilient, and examines how various attempts to undermine them just end up hurting democracy.

Product details

• Authors: Seth Masket, Seth E. Masket
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 11.08.2016
• EAN: 9780190220839
• ISBN: 978-0-19-022083-9
• No. of pages: 208
• Subjects: Non-fiction book > History > Miscellaneous; Social sciences, law, business > Political science > Political system; USA, Political Parties, POLITICAL SCIENCE / Political Process / Political Parties, POLITICAL SCIENCE / Political Process / General, POLITICAL SCIENCE / Political Ideologies / Democracy, POLITICAL SCIENCE / Public Affairs & Administration, Political structures: democracy, Public Administration, United States of America, USA, Political parties and party platforms, Public administration / Public policy