Why did the United States develop political parties? How and why do party alignments
change? Are the party-centered elections of the past better for democratic politics than the …

Democratic politics is a collective enterprise, not simply because individual votes are
counted to determine winners, but more fundamentally because the individual exercise of …

For the most part, scholars who study American political parties in the electorate continue to
characterize them as weak and in decline. Parties on the elite level, however, have …

While the literature already includes a large number of party typologies, they are
increasingly incapable of capturing the great diversity of party types that have emerged …

Throughout the contest for the 2008 Democratic presidential nomination, politicians and
voters alike worried that the outcome might depend on the preferences of unelected …

Using data from the 1976-1994 American National Election Studies and the 1992-94 ANES
panel survey, this paper demonstrates that the outcomes of the 1994 and 1996 elections …

Ambition theory suggests that scholars can understand a good deal about politics by
exploring politicians' career goals. In the USA, an enormous literature explains …

Antipartyism and its partner in negativity, antipartisanship, have a distinguished, even
brilliant pedigree. On the Side of the Angels is my assessment of antipartyism, designed to …

Since its first appearance fifteen years ago, Why Parties? has become essential reading for
anyone wishing to understand the nature of American political parties. In the interim, the …

Referenda on important public policy questions have come to play a central role in policy
making in many states. Referenda, or ballot propositions, have resulted in limits on taxation …