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The Inevitable Party - Why Attempts to Kill the Party System Fail and How they Weaken Democracy (Hardcover)
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The Inevitable Party - Why Attempts to Kill the Party System Fail and How they Weaken Democracy (Hardcover)
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Seth Masket's The Inevitable Party is a study of anti-party reforms
and why they fail. Numerous reform movements over the past century
have designated parties as the enemy of democracy, and they have
found a willing ally in the American people in their efforts to
rein in and occasionally root out parties. Masket investigates
several of these anti-party reform efforts - from open primaries to
campaign finance restrictions to nonpartisan legislatures - using
legislative roll call votes, campaign donations patterns, and
extensive interviews with local political elites. These cases each
demonstrate parties adapting to, and sometimes thriving amidst,
reforms designed to weaken or destroy them. The reason for these
reforms' failures, the book argues, is that they proceed from an
incorrect conception of just what a party is. Parties are not rigid
structures that can be wished or legislated away; they are networks
of creative and adaptive policy demanders who use their influence
to determine just what sorts of people get nominated for office.
Even while these reforms tend to fail, however, they impose
considerable costs on society, usually reducing transparency and
accountability in politics and government.
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