| Breaking the Two-Party Doom Loop: The Case for Multiparty Democracy in America Contributor(s): Grove, Christopher (Read by), Drutman, Lee (Author) |
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ISBN: 1665176830 ISBN-13: 9781665176835 Publisher: Kalorama OUR PRICE: $22.49 Product Type: Compact Disc - Other Formats Published: June 2020 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Political Science | Political Process - Political Parties - Political Science | Political Ideologies - Democracy - Political Science | American Government - General |
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| Publisher Description: American democracy is at an impasse. After years of zero-sum partisan trench warfare, our political institutions are deteriorating. Our norms are collapsing. Democrats and Republicans no longer merely argue; they cut off contact with each other. In short, the two-party system is breaking our democracy, and driving us all crazy. Deftly weaving together history, democratic theory, and cutting-edge political science research, Lee Drutman tells the story of how American politics became so toxic, 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. He argues that the only way out is to have more partisanship--more parties, to short-circuit the zero-sum nature of binary partisan conflict. Breaking the Two-Party Doom Loop makes a compelling case for large scale electoral reform--importantly, reform not requiring a constitutional amendment--that would give America more parties, making American democracy more representative, more responsive, and ultimately more stable. |