书目名称 | Stifling Political Competition | 副标题 | How Government Has R | 编辑 | James T. Bennett | 视频video | http://file.papertrans.cn/878/877728/877728.mp4 | 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 in a U.S. election year | 丛书名称 | Studies in Public Choice | 图书封面 |  | 描述 | .Stifling Political Competition 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 analysis synthesizes political science, economics and American history to demonstrate how the two-party system is the artificial creation of a network of laws, restrictions and subsidies that favor the Democrats and Republicans and cripple potential challenges. 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 | 出版日期 | Book 2009 | 关键词 | Campaign; Campaign Finance Reform; Democrats; Demopublicans; Election Campaign; Electoral Politics; Federa | 版次 | 1 | doi | https://doi.org/10.1007/978-0-387-09821-0 | isbn_softcover | 978-1-4419-1891-8 | isbn_ebook | 978-0-387-09821-0Series ISSN 0924-4700 Series E-ISSN 2731-5258 | issn_series | 0924-4700 | copyright | Springer-Verlag New York 2009 |
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