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The Inevitable Party: Why Attempts to Kill the Party System Fail and How they Weaken Democracy
Seth Masket
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Description for The Inevitable Party: Why Attempts to Kill the Party System Fail and How they Weaken Democracy
Paperback. 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. Num Pages: 208 pages, illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KBB; JPHV; JPL; JPP. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 237 x 157 x 14. Weight in Grams: 285.
Seth Masket's The Inevitable Party is a study of anti-party reforms and why they fail. Numerous reform movements over the past century have designated parties as the enemy of democracy, and they have found a willing ally in the American people in their efforts to rein in and occasionally root out parties. Masket investigates several of these anti-party reform efforts - from open primaries to campaign finance restrictions to nonpartisan legislatures - using legislative roll call votes, campaign donations patterns, and extensive interviews with local political elites. These cases each demonstrate parties adapting to, and sometimes thriving amidst, reforms designed ... Read more
Seth Masket's The Inevitable Party is a study of anti-party reforms and why they fail. Numerous reform movements over the past century have designated parties as the enemy of democracy, and they have found a willing ally in the American people in their efforts to rein in and occasionally root out parties. Masket investigates several of these anti-party reform efforts - from open primaries to campaign finance restrictions to nonpartisan legislatures - using legislative roll call votes, campaign donations patterns, and extensive interviews with local political elites. These cases each demonstrate parties adapting to, and sometimes thriving amidst, reforms designed ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Oxford University Press Inc
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2016
Condition
New
Weight
284g
Number of Pages
208
Place of Publication
New York, United States
ISBN
9780190220846
SKU
V9780190220846
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About Seth Masket
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 ... Read more
Reviews for The Inevitable Party: Why Attempts to Kill the Party System Fail and How they Weaken Democracy
"A dissenting voice in the cacophony of advocates for party reform... offers a compelling argument that "reform" at best offers temporary respite, and that reformers might what to adapt our institutions to the parties instead."
Choice "Using sophisticated analyses of historical and contemporary reform efforts in the states, Masket demonstrates that parties are not hapless victims of ... Read more
Choice "Using sophisticated analyses of historical and contemporary reform efforts in the states, Masket demonstrates that parties are not hapless victims of ... Read more