Party and Nation examines immigration as a means to understand
party competition in American history. The rise of Donald Trump
reflects an ongoing regime change in the U.S., in which
multiculturalism and nationalism have emerged as central aspects of
the major parties' ideological and coalitional bases. This
phenomenon of a multiculturalist Democratic Party and a nationalist
Republican Party, the authors suggest, is a dramatic departure from
the first American political regime. That older regime was grounded
in the Founding generation's commitment to the principle of natural
rights and the shaping of a national culture to support that
principle. Partisan debates over immigration set into relief the
tensions inherent in that commitment. The authors present the
permutations of that first regime amidst the territorial expansion
of the country and the tragic conflicts over slavery and
segregation. With industrialization, the great immigrant wave at
the turn of the 20th century, and the rise of the progressive
administrative state, the parties began their century-long
transformation into the plebiscitary institutions they are today.
This new political reality, it is argued, brought with it a
situation in which the debate over immigration not only illuminates
party differences, but has begun to define them.
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