Political party-Parties and political power Britannica.com Democracy and the American Party System. Front Cover. Austin Ranney, Willmoore Kendall. Harcourt, Brace, 1956-Political parties-550 pages. Political parties. Democracy and the American party system. By Why American Democracy Is Broken, and How to Fix It The New. The two-party system is destroying America TheHill Democracy in America. Sep 4th 2014. by M.S AMERICAS two-party system is a creaking monstrosity that has helped bring its politics to a grinding halt.
Distributing “raw” data among types or classes is a necessary and illuminating part of the process of research and discovery in any science, particularly in the early stages of the latter's development. But it produces fruitful results only if the types or classes make sense, which they will just to the extent that, inter alia, the variables we fix upon in defining them are the significant ones (for the purpose in view, of course), and that the classes (a) exhaust the phenomena under consideration, and (b) do not overlap.One of the most elementary procedures used in dealing with the raw data of political conflict is that which, taking its departure from the notion of “party systems,” seeks to assign each observed instance to one or another of three types: the “one-party system,” the “two-party system,” and the “multiple-party system.” All party systems, it is assumed, belong as a matter of course to one of the three, so that one of the researcher's first tasks in studying the phenomena of party conflict in a given political situation is to find out with which one of the three types he is dealing. Until he has done this—so runs the tacit premise—he does not have his problem in manageable shape.
There must be as many different kinds of democracy in this country as there are of Baptists, or even more.... Press-agencies must keep half a hundred assorted encomiums on democracy in standing type, like Western Union's canned messages for Mother's Day.... Every time one of our first-string publicists opens his mouth, a "democracy" falls out; and every time he shuts it, he bites one in two that was trying to get out.1
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