"A significant contribution to our understanding of minor parties
and party system change. The authors develop a new theory and
provide strong empirical evidence in support of it. They show that
the Perot's candidacy has had a strong and lasting impact on
partisan competition in elections.
---Paul Herrnson, Director, Center for American Politics and
Citizenship Professor, Department of Government and Politics,
University of Maryland
"Powerfully persuasive in its exhaustive research, "Three's a
Crowd" may surprise many by revealing the long- ignored but pivotal
impact of Perot voters on every national election since
1992."
---Clay Mulford, Jones Day and General Counsel to the 1992 Perot
Presidential Campaign and to the Reform Party.
"Rapaport and Stone have written an engaging and important book.
They bring fresh perspectives, interesting data, and much good
sense to this project. "Three's a Crowd" is fundamentally about
political change, which will, in turn, change how scholars and
pundits think of Ross Perot in particular, and third parties in
general."
---John G. Geer, Professor of Political Science at Vanderbilt
University and Editor of "The Journal of Politics"
"The definitive analysis of the Perot movement, its role in the
1994 GOP victory, and the emergence of an enduring governing
majority."
---L. Sandy Maisel, Director, Goldfarb Center for Public Affairs,
Colby College
"Three's a Crowd" begins with the simple insight that third parties
are creatures of the American two-party system, and derive their
support from the failures of the Democratic and Republican parties.
While third parties flash briefly in the gaps left by those
failures, theynevertheless follow a familiar pattern: a sensation
in one election, a disappointment in the next. Rapoport and Stone
conclude that this steep arc results from one or both major parties
successfully absorbing the third party's constituency. In the first
election, the third party raises new issues and defines new
constituencies; in the second, the major parties move in on the new
territory. But in appropriating the third party's constituents, the
major parties open themselves up to change. This is what the
authors call the "dynamic of third parties."
The Perot campaign exemplified this effect in 1992 and 1996.
Political observers of contemporary electoral politics missed the
significance of Perot's independent campaign for the presidency in
1992. Rapoport and Stone, who had unfettered-and
unparalleled-access to the Perot political machine, show how his
run perfectly embodies the third-party dynamic. Yet until now no
one has considered the aftermath of the Perot movement through that
lens.
For anyone who seeks to understand the workings of our stubbornly
two-party structure, this eagerly awaited and definitive analysis
will shed new light on the role of third parties in the American
political system.
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