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Not Invited to the Party - How the Demopublicans Have Rigged the System and Left Independents Out in the Cold (Paperback, 2010 ed.)
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Not Invited to the Party - How the Demopublicans Have Rigged the System and Left Independents Out in the Cold (Paperback, 2010 ed.)
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Not Invited to the Party demonstrates how the dominant political
parties--the Democrats and Republicans--have co-opted the system to
their advantage. James Bennett examines the history and array of
laws, regulations, subsidies and programs that benefit the two
major parties and discourage even the possibility of a serious
challenge to the Democrat-Republican duopoly. The American
Founders, as it has been generally forgotten, distrusted political
parties. Nowhere in the U.S. Constitution are parties mentioned,
much less given legal protection or privilege. This provocative
book traces how by the end of the Civil War the Republicans and
Democrats had guaranteed their dominance and subsequently
influenced a range of policies developed to protect the duopoly.
For example, Bennett examines how the Federal Election Campaign Act
of 1971 (as amended in 1974 and 1976), which was sold to the public
as a nonpartisan act of good government reformism actually
reinforced the dominance of the two parties. While focused
primarily on the American experience, the book also considers the
prevalence of two-party systems around the world (especially in
emerging democracies) and the widespread contempt with which they
are often viewed. Featuring incisive commentary on the 2008
election, and a foreword by third-party iconoclast, Ralph Nader,
the book considers the potential of truly radical reform toward
opening the field to vigorous, lively, contentious independent
candidacies that might finally offer alienated voters a choice, not
an echo.
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