Primary Elections and American Politics : The Unintended Consequences of Progressive Era Reform
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Paperback / Softback
ISBN-10
1438490585
ISBN-13
9781438490588
Publisher
State University of New York Press
Imprint
State University of New York Press
Country of Manufacture
GB
Country of Publication
GB
Publication Date
Apr 2nd, 2023
Print length
262 Pages
Weight
363 grams
Product Classification:
History of the AmericasPolitics & governmentPolitical parties
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Argues that Progressive Era reforms had the counterintuitive effect of weakening political parties and their role in representative government.
The last twenty years has seen a series of changes to American party politics: polarization, negative partisanship, decreasing voter turnout, and decreasing faith in elections and government. In Primary Elections and American Politics, Chapman Rackaway and Joseph Romance trace the origins of these and other problems to one of the most controversial reforms in American political history: the direct partisan primary election. With a comprehensive history of the primary election, the authors link the rise of primaries to the many political ills the nation faces today. They argue that the Progressives who created the primaries mistook direct democratic reforms, like the primary, for participatory democratic reforms like deliberative polling or participatory budgeting.
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