| 书目名称 | Not Invited to the Party | | 副标题 | How the Demopublican | | 编辑 | James T. Bennett | | 视频video | | | 概述 | Provocative arguments concerning the dynamics of party politics, with practical recommendations for reform.Prolific and outspoken author prepared to promote to mainstream media; features a foreword by | | 图书封面 |  | | 描述 | .Not Invited to the Party demonstrates how the dominant political parties--the Democrats and Republicans--have co-opted the system to their advantage. James Bennett examines the history and array of laws, regulations, subsidies and programs that benefit the two major parties and discourage even the possibility of a serious challenge to the Democrat-Republican duopoly. The American Founders, as it has been generally forgotten, distrusted political parties. Nowhere in the U.S. Constitution are parties mentioned, much less given legal protection or privilege. This provocative book traces how by the end of the Civil War the Republicans and Democrats had guaranteed their dominance and subsequently influenced a range of policies developed to protect the duopoly. For example, Bennett examines how the Federal Election Campaign Act of 1971 (as amended in 1974 and 1976), which was sold to the public as a nonpartisan act of good government reformism actually reinforced the dominance of the two parties. While focused primarily on the American experience, the book also considers the prevalence of two-party systems around the world (especially in emerging democracies) and the widespread contempt | | 出版日期 | Book 2010 | | 关键词 | Campaign Finance Reform; Democrats; Demopublicans; Electoral Politics; Federal Election Campaign Act; Par | | 版次 | 1 | | doi | https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4419-0366-2 | | isbn_softcover | 978-1-4939-0088-6 | | isbn_ebook | 978-1-4419-0366-2 | | copyright | Springer-Verlag New York 2010 |
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