Description: Further DetailsTitle: The Tyranny of the Two-Party SystemCondition: NewISBN-10: 0231110359EAN: 9780231110358ISBN: 9780231110358Publisher: Columbia University PressFormat: PaperbackRelease Date: 05/07/2002Description: The closely contested presidential election of 2000, which many analysts felt was decided by voters for the Green Party, cast a spotlight on a structural contradiction of American politics. Critics charged that Green Party voters inadvertently contributed to the election of a conservative Republican president because they chose to "vote their conscience" rather than "choose between two evils." But why this choice of two? Is the two-party system of Democrats and Republicans an immutable and indispensable aspect of our democracy? Lisa Disch maintains that it is not. There is no constitutional warrant for two parties, and winner-take-all elections need not set third parties up to fail. She argues that the two-party system as we know it dates only to the twentieth century and that it thwarts democracy by wasting the votes and silencing the voices of dissenters. The Tyranny of the Two-Party System reexamines a once popular nineteenth-century strategy called fusion, in which a dominant-party candidate ran on the ballots of both the established party and a third party.In the nineteenth century fusion made possible something that many citizens wish were possible today: to register a protest vote that counts and that will not throw the election to the establishment candidate they least prefer. The book concludes by analyzing the 2000 presidential election as an object lesson in the tyranny of the two-party system and with suggestions for voting experiments to stimulate participation and make American democracy responsive to a broader range of citizens.Language: EnglishCountry/Region of Manufacture: USAuthor: Lisa DischGenre: Law & PoliticsBook Series: Power, Conflict, and Democracy: American Politics Into the 21st CenturyRelease Year: 2002 Missing Information?Please contact us if any details are missing and where possible we will add the information to our listing.
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Book Title: The Tyranny of the Two-Party System
Title: The Tyranny of the Two-Party System
ISBN-10: 0231110359
EAN: 9780231110358
ISBN: 9780231110358
Release Date: 05/07/2002
Release Year: 2002
Country/Region of Manufacture: US
Genre: Law & Politics
Number of Pages: 172 Pages
Language: English
Publication Name: Tyranny of the Two-Party System
Publisher: Columbia University Press
Subject: Political Process / Campaigns & Elections, Political Process / Political Parties, Civics & Citizenship, American Government / National
Publication Year: 2002
Item Height: 0.1 in
Type: Textbook
Item Weight: 10.9 Oz
Item Length: 1 in
Subject Area: Political Science
Author: Lisa Disch
Item Width: 0.6 in
Series: Power, Conflict, and Democracy: American Politics Into the 21st Century Ser.
Format: Trade Paperback
