Search Results for: Third Parties In America

1. Tables and Figures -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Constraints on Third Parties -- 3. Third Parties of the Nineteenth Century -- 4. Independents of the Twentieth Ce

Virtually all academic books on American third parties in the last half-century assume that they have largely disappeared. This book challenges that orthodoxy b

Examines the value of third parties as well as the cultural & structural constraints that relegate them to the periphery of American political life.

The election of 2016 prompted journalists and political scientists to write obituaries for the Republican Party—or prophecies of a new dominance. But it was a

Students of American government are faced with an enduring dilemma: Why two parties? Why has this system remained largely intact while around the world democrac