political parties

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• SOURCE: NPR
  8/17/2022
  

  Lichtman: Polarization Makes Dynastic Politics Less Prominent

  NPR's Steve Inskeep speaks to Allan Lichtman, a professor of history at American University, about Liz Cheney's political career after her Wyoming primary loss, and the political dynasties.

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• SOURCE: Boston Review
  11/6/2020
  

  What Are Parties For?

  by Jan-Werner Müller

  The Republican Party has outsourced the work of policymaking to a handful of billionaire-funded think tanks, leading to an incoherent platform of plutocratic populism and a party structure that cannot debate and advance new ideas, says a top scholar of comparative politics. 

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• SOURCE: New York Times
  9/16/2020
  

  How the Black Vote Became a Monolith

  by Theodore R. Johnson

  Despite the political diversity within Black America, the political system's accommodation of bigotry and the political utility of appeals to white identity have pushed the overwhelming majority of Black voters to cast ballots for the same party. 

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• SOURCE: New York Times
  9/8/2020
  

  Are We More Divided Now Than Ever Before? (Review)

  A political scientist argues that today's polarization is enabled by the collapse of political diversity within the major parties, not by an especially ideological electorate.

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• SOURCE: New Republic
  2-2-18
  

  Why America Is Stuck With Only Two Parties

  by Micah L. Sifry

  If the United States ever gets a major new political party, it won’t be built by think tank denizens.

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• SOURCE: OUP Blog
  5-22-15
  

  Do America’s political parties matter in presidential elections?

  by Richard M. Valelly

  The evolution of the presidential selection system suggests not that American political parties abandoned a key function of party politics sometime in the 1970s, that is, the task of picking the presidential nominee.

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• 9-30-13
  

  A Plea for Political Moderation

  by Vaughn Davis Bornet

  Moderates are a depressingly vanishing breed... and in the absence of moderates, extremism, anger, and shrillness rule the day.

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• Why Do So Many Americans Hate Politics?

  by Thomas Patterson

  The nastiness of American politics is keeping voters from the polls.