Forty-three years after the publication of "Toward a More
Responsible Two-Party System" in the "American Political Science
Review, "John Kenneth White and Jerome M. Mileur place the
"responsible parties" argument into historical perspective and
assess its import over the last four decades for both the scholarly
study of American political parties and the evaluation of American
parties as democratic political institutions.
This book is the first systematic look at the "responsible
parties" argument originally developed by E. E. Schattschneider and
the Committee on Political Parties, a group sanctioned by the
American Political Science Association. The contributors are among
some of the most ardent fans of political parties, who view the
party system, despite its continued decline, as potentially the
most effective means of communication between voters and
legislators. Yet, while each would like to see the resurgence of
parties, most are pessimistic about the capacity of these
institutions to assist in the governance of the country. Elections
in which the party system fails to frame issues satisfactorily and
the rise of an American state without the helping hand of parties
to run it have contributed to a political crisis of confidence in
government. How that crisis is resolved, and the fate that
ultimately awaits the political parties, will shape much of
American politics in the next century.
The contributors to "Challenges to Party Government "include
some of the leading scholars on American political parties, such as
Everett Carll Ladd, A. James Reichley, Wilson Carey McWilliams,
Sidney M. Milkis, and John S. Jackson III, as well as the only two
members of the House ofRepresentatives who are political
scientists, Democrat David E. Price and Republican William M.
Thomas. Both Price and Thomas have long records of party service,
and each draws upon his scholarly expertise to compare what the
literature says about political parties and what his own party
experiences have been.
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