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Why We're Polarized is a 2020 non-fiction book by American journalist Ezra Klein, in which the author analyzes political polarization in the United States.Focusing in particular on the growing polarization between the major political parties in the United States (the Democratic Party and the Republican Party), the author argues that a combination of good intentions gone wrong, such as dealing ...
American electoral politics have been dominated by successive pairs of major political parties since shortly after the founding of the republic of the United States. Since the 1850s, the two largest political parties have been the Democratic Party and the Republican Party—which together have won every United States presidential election since 1852 and controlled the United States Congress ...
Party Ballot access [10] Ideology Year founded Political position Membership [b] Presidential vote (2024) [3] American Independent Party: California Paleoconservatism [26] 1967 Far-right: 861,468 754,980 (0.49%) [D] Liberal Party: New Mexico Classical Liberalism [27] 2022 Center: 15,940 859 (0.0006%) Working Class Party: Michigan Socialism [28 ...
Failed States (book) The FairTax Book; The Family: The Secret Fundamentalism at the Heart of American Power; The Family: The Real Story of the Bush Dynasty; The Fate of the Earth; The FBI Pyramid; Fear and Loathing on the Campaign Trail '72; Fear: Trump in the White House; Fed Up! (book) The First Civil Right; Flyover (book)
Federalist No. 10 is sometimes cited as showing that the Founding Fathers and the constitutional framers did not intend American politics to be partisan. For instance, U.S. Supreme Court justice John Paul Stevens cites the paper for the statement that "Parties ranked high on the list of evils that the Constitution was designed to check". [40]
Political Parties: A Sociological Study of the Oligarchical Tendencies of Modern Democracy (German: Zur Soziologie des Parteiwesens in der modernen Demokratie; Untersuchungen über die oligarchischen Tendenzen des Gruppenlebens) is a book by the German-born Italian sociologist Robert Michels, published in 1911 and first introducing the concept of iron law of oligarchy.
The book's initial portion [7] describes a crisis of the British Conservative Party circa 1906 and the German National People's Party. [8] The author argues that the British discovered how a political party could continue the influence of the existing conservatives, [6] and that the British party had stronger organization than the equivalent in 20th century Germany. [9]
Listen, Liberal: Or, What Ever Happened to the Party of the People? is a 2016 book by American author Thomas Frank.In the book, Frank argues that the American Democratic Party has changed over time to support elitism in the form of a professional class instead of the working class, facilitating the growth of what he considers deleterious economic inequality. [1]