| Description |
1 online resource |
| Contents |
Part I Origins -- What the Framers Got Right and What They Got Wrong -- The Paradox of Partisanship -- The Great Reordering of the Parties -- The Collapse of the Four-Party System and the Rise of Zero-Sum Politics -- Part II The Contemporary Crisis -- The New Era of Toxic Politics -- All Politics Is Conflict; Not All Conflict Is Toxic -- The Breakdown of Political Fairness -- Part III The Solution -- 8 Designing the Save American Democracy Act -- Two Few; The Case for Multiparty Democracy in America -- The Politics of Electoral Reform -- The Future of American Democracy |
| Summary |
American democracy is in deep crisis. But what do we do about it? That depends on how we understand what the crisis actually is. In 'Breaking the Two-Party Doom Loop', Lee Drutman argues that we now have, for the first time in American history, a true two-party system, with two disciplined, national parties. And it's a disaster. It's driving us apart instead of bringing us together. And it's fundamentally at odds with our anti-majoritarian, compromise-oriented governing institutions. The conflict is unsustainable. Deftly weaving together history, democratic theory, and cutting edge political science research, Drutman tells the story of how American politics became so toxic, and why the country is trapped in a doom loop of escalating two-party warfare, and why it is destroying the shared sense of fairness and legitimacy on which democracy depends |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
Online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on December 13, 2019) |
| Subject |
Political parties -- United States.
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Democracy -- United States
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Democracy
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Political parties
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Politics and government
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| SUBJECT |
United States -- Politics and government -- Philosophy
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| Subject |
United States
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9780190913861 |
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019091386X |
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9780190913878 |
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0190913878 |
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9780197516980 |
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019751698X |
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