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Responsible parties : saving democracy from itself
- Title
- Responsible parties : saving democracy from itself / Frances McCall Rosenbluth and Ian Shapiro.
- Author
- Rosenbluth, Frances McCall
- Publication
- New Haven : Yale University Press, [2018]
- ©2018
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- Additional Authors
- Shapiro, Ian
- Description
- x, 324 pages : illustrations; 22 cm
- Summary
- 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.
- Subjects
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 251-309) and index.
- Contents
- Misdiagnosing Democracy's ills -- The means and ends of Democratic competition -- Vulnerable minorities -- Big strong parties : Westminster -- Big weak parties : the American variant -- Strong parties in small European democracies -- The French mix -- Of Labrodoodles and Poodledors : Germany -- Wannabe labradoodles : New Zealand, Italy, Japan, and Mexico -- Presidentialism with small weak parties : Latin America -- Creeping authoritarianism in Eastern Europe -- Ways forward.
- Call Number
- JFD 19-1589
- ISBN
- 0300232756
- 9780300232752
- LCCN
- 2018939957
- OCLC
- 1028906879
- Author
- Rosenbluth, Frances McCall, author.
- Title
- Responsible parties : saving democracy from itself / Frances McCall Rosenbluth and Ian Shapiro.
- Publisher
- New Haven : Yale University Press, [2018]
- Copyright Date
- ©2018
- Type of Content
- text
- Type of Medium
- unmediated
- Type of Carrier
- volume
- Bibliography
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 251-309) and index.
- Local Note
- AUTH: YALE UNIVERSITY.
- Added Author
- Shapiro, Ian, author.
- Research Call Number
- JFD 19-1589