Democracy and the American Party System

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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.

Federalized Party Systems and Subnational Party Competition: Theory and an Empirical Application to Argentina

“…Key's study of southern political and party systems and Austin Ranney and Willmoore Kendall's study of party competition in several U.S. states. 4 More recent works also compare contemporary patterns of state party organization, 5 as well as competition and party leadership behavior across U.S. states. 6 The bulk of these authors implicitly or explicitly recognize the empirical existence of party systems operating at the state level.…”

The Hollow Parties

“…Gerring 1998). Analysts have pointed variously to institutional fragmentation (Epstein 1986;Samuels and Shugart 2010), liberal anti-majoritarianism (Ranney and Kendall 1956), and early mass suffrage (Katznelson 1985;Shefter 1994). Whatever the mix of causes, the result is a system in which formal parties lack the in-house research and policy operations typical among parties in parliamentary systems (Campbell and Pederson 2014).…”

The Lay of the Land: Battlegrounds and Terrain in Party Scholarship

“…He argued that parties are indeed desirable because they produce steadfast opposition to the government-of-the-day, and without such structures government takes on the form of a secret conspiracy. In short, he argued that parties promote accountability and help to translate the public will into appropriate government (Ranney 1956). As such, Lieber was the first writer to see parties as linkage institutions-an idea that seemed to challenge notions of direct popular government, advanced by Rousseau and later by Ostrogorski ([1902] 1964), who proclaimed that any intermediary organization was a serious deficiency.…”