Since the founding of the American Republic, the North and South
have followed remarkably different paths of political development.
Among the factors that have led to their divergence throughout much
of history are differences in the levels of competition among the
political parties. While the North has generally enjoyed a
well-defined two-party system, the South has tended to have only
weakly developed political parties and at times no system of
parties to speak of. With Why Parties Matter, John H. Aldrich and
John D. Griffin make a compelling case that competition between
political parties is an essential component of a democracy that is
responsive to its citizens and thus able to address their concerns.
Tracing the history of the parties through four eras the
Democratic-Whig party era that preceded the Civil War; the
post-Reconstruction period; the Jim Crow era, when competition
between the parties virtually disappeared; and the modern era
Aldrich and Griffin show how and when competition emerged between
the parties and the conditions under which it succeeded and failed.
In the modern era, as party competition in the South has come to be
widely regarded as matching that of the North, the authors conclude
by exploring the question of whether the South is poised to become
a one-party system once again with the Republican party now
dominant.
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