The Tyranny of the Two-Party System:
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Main Author: Disch, Lisa J. (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: New York Columbia University Press 2012
Series:Power, Conflict, and Democracy: American Politics Into the 21st Century
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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 wa
Physical Description:1 Online-Ressource (215 p)
ISBN:9780231504676

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