Download or read book Party Politics why We Have Poor Presidents written by Leonard Lurie and published by Scarborough House. This book was released on 1980 with total page 372 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Party Politics written by Leonard Lurie and published by . This book was released on 1982-09-01 with total page 336 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Party Politics why We Have Poor Presidents written by Leonard Lurie and published by . This book was released on 1980 with total page 326 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Washington s Farewell Address to the People of the United States 1796 written by George Washington and published by . This book was released on 1913 with total page 38 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book The Party Decides written by Marty Cohen and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 2009-05-15 with total page 418 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Throughout the contest for the 2008 Democratic presidential nomination, politicians and voters alike worried that the outcome might depend on the preferences of unelected superdelegates. This concern threw into relief the prevailing notion that—such unusually competitive cases notwithstanding—people, rather than parties, should and do control presidential nominations. But for the past several decades, The Party Decides shows, unelected insiders in both major parties have effectively selected candidates long before citizens reached the ballot box. Tracing the evolution of presidential nominations since the 1790s, this volume demonstrates how party insiders have sought since America’s founding to control nominations as a means of getting what they want from government. Contrary to the common view that the party reforms of the 1970s gave voters more power, the authors contend that the most consequential contests remain the candidates’ fights for prominent endorsements and the support of various interest groups and state party leaders. These invisible primaries produce frontrunners long before most voters start paying attention, profoundly influencing final election outcomes and investing parties with far more nominating power than is generally recognized.

Download or read book The Politics Industry written by Katherine M. Gehl and published by Harvard Business Press. This book was released on 2020-06-23 with total page 316 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Leading political innovation activist Katherine Gehl and world-renowned business strategist Michael Porter bring fresh perspective, deep scholarship, and a real and actionable solution, Final Five Voting, to the grand challenge of our broken political and democratic system. Final Five Voting has already been adopted in Alaska and is being advanced in states across the country. The truth is, the American political system is working exactly how it is designed to work, and it isn't designed or optimized today to work for us—for ordinary citizens. Most people believe that our political system is a public institution with high-minded principles and impartial rules derived from the Constitution. In reality, it has become a private industry dominated by a textbook duopoly—the Democrats and the Republicans—and plagued and perverted by unhealthy competition between the players. Tragically, it has therefore become incapable of delivering solutions to America's key economic and social challenges. In fact, there's virtually no connection between our political leaders solving problems and getting reelected. In The Politics Industry, business leader and path-breaking political innovator Katherine Gehl and world-renowned business strategist Michael Porter take a radical new approach. They ingeniously apply the tools of business analysis—and Porter's distinctive Five Forces framework—to show how the political system functions just as every other competitive industry does, and how the duopoly has led to the devastating outcomes we see today. Using this competition lens, Gehl and Porter identify the most powerful lever for change—a strategy comprised of a clear set of choices in two key areas: how our elections work and how we make our laws. Their bracing assessment and practical recommendations cut through the endless debate about various proposed fixes, such as term limits and campaign finance reform. The result: true political innovation. The Politics Industry is an original and completely nonpartisan guide that will open your eyes to the true dynamics and profound challenges of the American political system and provide real solutions for reshaping the system for the benefit of all. THE INSTITUTE FOR POLITICAL INNOVATION The authors will donate all royalties from the sale of this book to the Institute for Political Innovation.

Download or read book Curious Correlations Party Politics and Economics written by Jan S Raymond and published by Independently Published. This book was released on 2019-07-15 with total page 156 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This investigation of curious correlations explores the implications of the fact the two worst economic collapses in the last 100 years, the Great Depression and the Great Recession occurred at the end of a decade of Republican domination of all elective branches of government.- House, Senate and Presidency. Republicans pursued similar policies in both decades - tax cuts, regulatory cuts and reducing the size of Government. At no other time in the last 100 years did Republicans enjoy such total control for an extended period of time. Polls say that voters generally consider Republicans to be better at managing the economy. How can it be that the party that is perceived to be better at managing the economy controlled government policy in the decade leading up to the two worst economic collapses of the last 100 years.? Is it just bad luck? Or bad policy? The book examines whether data justifies voter belief in Republican managerial skills. It begins by developing historical context - summarizing the philosophical differences between Republicans and Democrats regarding how they view market based economics, the appropriate size of government, taxation to support government, and regulating individual behavior. Next it identifies who controlled each branch of Congress and which party controlled the Presidency for each of the 50 two-year congressional sessions between 1919 and 2018. The data shows that Republicans have dominated government policy for about 51 of the 100 years between 1919 and 2018 while Democratic policies dominated government for 49 years. After reviewing how we pay for the Federal government it becomes obvious the most prominent difference between the parties is that when Republicans controlled policy the tax rate on the top end of the income of the wealthiest taxpayers is below 40% while when Democrats controlled policy the tax rate on the top end of the wealthiest taxpayers income averaged roughly 85%. Next it compares GDP figures for each year between 1919 and 2018 and the data shows in the 49 years when Democratic policy dominated the country grew an average of 2.77% per year, while in the 51 years when Republican policy dominated GDP grew at an average of less than 1% per year. During the years Republican policy dominated the National debt rose by over 50%. During the years Democratic policy dominated the National debt rose only 5%. When Republican policy dominates the rich get richer and the poor get poorer, when Democratic policy dominated the rich still get richer but everyone else did much better. Looking at indirect economic consequences when Republican policy dominated our healthcare system got more expensive and inefficient, compared to when Democratic policy dominated. During the years Republican policy dominated the housing market was more volatile, home ownership shrank and more people lost their homes to foreclosure. During the years Democratic policy dominated the housing market was stable, home ownership grew and foreclosures were rare. During the years of Republican domination higher education became less available for those without well off parents, during periods of Democratic domination higher education became more widely available across all income brackets. Finally we look at the stock market - surely the stock market does better when Republicans control? But in fact the market generally does considerably better under periods of Democratic policy control than during periods of Republican policy control. Looking at the vocations of Presidents in the last 100 years the data shows the 5 Presidents that came out of a business background were all Republican and economic performance during all their administrations ranged from mediocre to calamitous. The book concludes with a summary and some speculation on why these often counter-intuitive correlations exist.

Download or read book The Increasingly United States written by Daniel J. Hopkins and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 2018-05-30 with total page 307 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In a campaign for state or local office these days, you’re as likely today to hear accusations that an opponent advanced Obamacare or supported Donald Trump as you are to hear about issues affecting the state or local community. This is because American political behavior has become substantially more nationalized. American voters are far more engaged with and knowledgeable about what’s happening in Washington, DC, than in similar messages whether they are in the South, the Northeast, or the Midwest. Gone are the days when all politics was local. With The Increasingly United States, Daniel J. Hopkins explores this trend and its implications for the American political system. The change is significant in part because it works against a key rationale of America’s federalist system, which was built on the assumption that citizens would be more strongly attached to their states and localities. It also has profound implications for how voters are represented. If voters are well informed about state politics, for example, the governor has an incentive to deliver what voters—or at least a pivotal segment of them—want. But if voters are likely to back the same party in gubernatorial as in presidential elections irrespective of the governor’s actions in office, governors may instead come to see their ambitions as tethered more closely to their status in the national party.

Download or read book The Last Liberal Republican written by John Roy Price and published by University Press of Kansas. This book was released on 2023-11-17 with total page 416 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Last Liberal Republican is a memoir from one of Nixon’s senior domestic policy advisors. John Roy Price—a member of the moderate wing of the Republican Party, a cofounder of the Ripon Society, and an employee on Nelson Rockefeller’s campaigns—joined Daniel Patrick Moynihan, and later John D. Ehrlichman, in the Nixon White House to develop domestic policies, especially on welfare, hunger, and health. Based on those policies, and the internal White House struggles around them, Price places Nixon firmly in the liberal Republican tradition of President Theodore Roosevelt, New York governor Thomas E. Dewey, and President Dwight Eisenhower. Price makes a valuable contribution to our evolving scholarship and understanding of the Nixon presidency. Nixon himself lamented that he would be remembered only for Watergate and China. The Last Liberal Republican provides firsthand insight into key moments regarding Nixon’s political and policy challenges in the domestic social policy arena. Price offers rich detail on the extent to which Nixon and his staff straddled a precarious balance between a Democratic-controlled Congress and an increasingly powerful conservative tide in Republican politics. The Last Liberal Republican provides a blow-by-blow inside view of how Nixon surprised the Democrats and shocked conservatives with his ambitious proposal for a guaranteed family income. Beyond Nixon’s surprising embrace of what we today call universal basic income, the thirty-seventh president reordered and vastly expanded the patchy food stamp program he inherited and built nutrition education and children’s food services into schools. Richard Nixon even almost achieved a national health insurance program: fifty years ago, with a private sector framework as part of his generous benefits insurance coverage for all, Nixon included coverage of preexisting conditions, prescription drug coverage for all, and federal subsidies for those who could not afford the premiums. The Last Liberal Republican will be a valuable resource for presidency scholars who are studying Nixon, his policies, the state of the Republican Party, and how the Nixon years relate to the rise of the modern conservative movement.

Download or read book Responsible Parties written by Frances Rosenbluth and published by Yale University Press. This book was released on 2018-10-02 with total page 335 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: How popular democracy has paradoxically eroded trust in political systems worldwide, and how to restore confidence in democratic politics In recent decades, democracies across the world have adopted measures to increase popular involvement in political decisions. Parties have turned to primaries and local caucuses to select candidates; ballot initiatives and referenda allow citizens to enact laws directly; many places now use proportional representation, encouraging smaller, more specific parties rather than two dominant ones.Yet voters keep getting angrier.There is a steady erosion of trust in politicians, parties, and democratic institutions, culminating most recently in major populist victories in the United States, the United Kingdom, and elsewhere. Frances Rosenbluth and Ian Shapiro argue that devolving power to the grass roots is part of the problem. Efforts to decentralize political decision-making have made governments and especially political parties less effective and less able to address constituents’ long-term interests. They argue that to restore confidence in governance, we must restructure our political systems to restore power to the core institution of representative democracy: the political party.

Download or read book Democracy for Realists written by Christopher H. Achen and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 2017-08-29 with total page 423 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Why our belief in government by the people is unrealistic—and what we can do about it Democracy for Realists assails the romantic folk-theory at the heart of contemporary thinking about democratic politics and government, and offers a provocative alternative view grounded in the actual human nature of democratic citizens. Christopher Achen and Larry Bartels deploy a wealth of social-scientific evidence, including ingenious original analyses of topics ranging from abortion politics and budget deficits to the Great Depression and shark attacks, to show that the familiar ideal of thoughtful citizens steering the ship of state from the voting booth is fundamentally misguided. They demonstrate that voters—even those who are well informed and politically engaged—mostly choose parties and candidates on the basis of social identities and partisan loyalties, not political issues. They also show that voters adjust their policy views and even their perceptions of basic matters of fact to match those loyalties. When parties are roughly evenly matched, elections often turn on irrelevant or misleading considerations such as economic spurts or downturns beyond the incumbents' control; the outcomes are essentially random. Thus, voters do not control the course of public policy, even indirectly. Achen and Bartels argue that democratic theory needs to be founded on identity groups and political parties, not on the preferences of individual voters. Now with new analysis of the 2016 elections, Democracy for Realists provides a powerful challenge to conventional thinking, pointing the way toward a fundamentally different understanding of the realities and potential of democratic government.

Download or read book The Most Hated President Yet the Most Loved written by Carla Spalding and published by . This book was released on 2021-01-26 with total page 136 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Conservatives vs Liberals, a view from both political parties. Why do they either love President Donald Trump or hate him? Why is he such a controversial figure? In this book you will get a unique perspective from a black female, veteran, and registered nurse, running for Congress. Follow Carla Spalding's journey as she runs for Congress for Miami-Broward Congressional District 23, Florida. Understand how someone with no political background navigates through the underworld of nasty dirty politics of both parties. See how she became the nominee despite the efforts of one party to undermine and the lack of support from the other. Also, get an insider look at Carla's prediction of who will win the presidency for 2020. Carla will speak to the future of both parties or the lack thereof. If you truly value democracy and want true change, this is the book for you! Conservative versus Liberals, a new beginning. How do we want to live? The way we are living now? Do we want to continue on the path of destruction that the Democrats are leading us in? Or do we want to return America the way that it used to be and how the President has made it so far? Trump blows up the system as we know it. Regular middle-class people vs the big political machine. Awakening the woke, blacks starting to see the truth. Why aren't more Caribbean Americans, Republican? Are the American people ready for the truth? Can Black America handle what is behind the political strategies on display? Are you ready for the Vaccine, Carla's got the Truth Vaccine!! Think about the following questions: If the Democrats are for the poor, then why, for generations, are they still poor? How have their policies really helped? Carla Spalding is planting a seed of learning to think rationally for self-determination. Carla doesn't have all the answers to the future, but she will open your eyes to view different positions. We don't always see things in the same manner. The first thing that must be addressed is the mindset and empowering individuality. It is important for the voters to wake up and demand more from their representatives, regardless of party. Are you ready for the truth?

Download or read book Two Parties or More written by John F Bibby and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2019-05-20 with total page 172 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Students of American government are faced with an enduring dilemma: Why two parties? Why has this system remained largely intact while around the world democracies support multiparty systems? Should our two-party system continue as we enter the new millennium? This newly revised and updated edition of Two Parties-Or More? answers these questions by

Download or read book Why Americans Hate Politics written by E.J. Dionne and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2004-06 with total page 436 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: One of our shrewdest political observers traces thirty years of volatile political history and finds that on point after point, liberals and conservatives are framing issues as a series of "false choices," making it impossible for politicians to solve problems, and alienating voters in the process.

Download or read book Winner Take All Politics written by Jacob S. Hacker and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2010 with total page 368 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Analyzes the growing divide between the incomes of the wealthy class and those of middle-income Americans, exonerating popular suspects to argue that the nation's political system promotes greed and under-representation.

Download or read book Congressional Government written by Woodrow Wilson and published by . This book was released on 1901 with total page 374 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Breaking the Two party Doom Loop written by Lee Drutman and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 2020 with total page 369 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: American democracy is in deep crisis. But what do we do about it? That depends on how we understand the current threat.In Breaking the Two-Party Doom Loop, Lee Drutman argues that we now have, for the first time in American history, a genuine two-party system, with two fully-sorted, truly national parties, divided over the character of the nation. And it's a disaster. It's a party system fundamentally at odds withour anti-majoritarian, compromise-oriented governing institutions. It threatens the very foundations of fairness and shared values on which our democracy depends.Deftly weaving together history, democratic theory, and cutting-edge political science research, Drutman tells the story of how American politics became so toxic and why the country is now trapped in a doom loop of escalating two-party warfare from which there is only one escape: increase the numberof parties through electoral reform. As he shows, American politics was once stable because the two parties held within them multiple factions, which made it possible to assemble flexible majorities and kept the climate of political combat from overheating. But as conservative Southern Democrats andliberal Northeastern Republicans disappeared, partisan conflict flattened and pulled apart. Once the parties became fully nationalized - a long-germinating process that culminated in 2010 - toxic partisanship took over completely. With the two parties divided over competing visions of nationalidentity, Democrats and Republicans no longer see each other as opponents, but as enemies. And the more the conflict escalates, the shakier our democracy feels.Breaking the Two-Party Doom Loop makes a compelling case for large scale electoral reform - importantly, reform not requiring a constitutional amendment - that would give America more parties, making American democracy more representative, more responsive, and ultimately more stable.