Sam Rosenfeld
Author
Publisher
University of Chicago Press
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
Description
Even in this most partisan and dysfunctional of eras, we can all agree on one thing: Washington is broken. Politicians take increasingly inflexible and extreme positions, leading to gridlock, partisan warfare, and the sense that our seats of government are nothing but cesspools of hypocrisy, childishness, and waste. The shocking reality, though, is that modern polarization was a deliberate project carried out by Democratic and Republican activists....
Author
Publisher
Princeton University Press
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Description
"A major history of America' political parties from the country's Founding to our embittered present. America's political parties are hollow shells of what they could be, locked in a polarized struggle for power and unrooted as civic organizations. The Hollow Parties takes readers from the rise of mass party politics in the Jacksonian era through the years of Barack Obama and Donald Trump. Today's parties, at once overbearing and ineffectual, have...
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