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Responsible Parties Frances McCall Rosenbluth

Responsible Parties By Frances McCall Rosenbluth

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Responsible Parties: Saving Democracy from Itself by Frances McCall Rosenbluth

How popular democracy has paradoxically eroded trust in political systems worldwide, and how to restore confidence in democratic politics

Democracies across the world are adopting reforms to bring politics closer to the people. Parties have turned to primaries and local caucuses to select candidates. Ballot initiatives and referenda allow citizens to enact laws directly. Many democracies 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, not the solution. Efforts to decentralize political decisionmaking make governments and especially political parties less effective and less able to address constituents longterm interests. To revive confidence in governance, we must restructure our political systems to restore power to the core institution of representative democracy: the political party.

Responsible Parties Reviews

Other political parties across the Western world have, in the past few years, experienced hostile takeovers of their own . . . Responsible Parties is one of the first books to give serious attention to the political effects of this transformation.Yascha Mounk, New Yorker

A trenchant and fiercely argued diagnosis of the growing pathology of representative democracy.John Dunn, Emeritus Professor of Political Theory and Fellow of King's College, Cambridge

"Democracies that serve majorities over the long run require strong, cohesive legislative parties. Full stop. In their brilliant analysis of party systems across post-industrial democraciessteeped in the latest scholarship, animated by dramatic stories, and made urgent by the dangerous flowering of extremist parties and demagoguesRosenbluth and Shapiro serve as expert, impassioned guides to why we must have strong parties and why, in efforts to be more representative, parties everywhere are failing democracy."Nancy Rosenblum, Senator Joseph S. Clark Research Professor of Ethics in Politics and Government, Harvard University

"One of the best books in many years on comparative democratic politics . . .compelling, courageous, and unconventional . . .A must read for anyone interested in how to restore the vitality of our democratic institutions and politics."Richard H. Pildes, Sudler Family Professor of Constitutional Law, NYU School of Law

About Frances McCall Rosenbluth

Frances McCall Rosenbluth (19582021) was the Damon Wells Professor of Political Science and Ian Shapiro is Sterling Professor of Political Science, both at Yale University.

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CIN0300251947G
9780300251944
0300251947
Responsible Parties: Saving Democracy from Itself by Frances McCall Rosenbluth
Used - Good
Paperback
Yale University Press
2020-05-12
336
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