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Languages : en
Pages : 86
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Platforms of the Democratic Party and the Republican Party
Author: Platforms of the Democratic Party and the Republican Party
Author: United States. Congress. HousePublisher:
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Languages : en
Pages : 88
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Platforms of the Two Great Political Parties
Author: William GrafPublisher:
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Category : Political parties
Languages : en
Pages : 144
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National Party Platforms
Author: Platforms of the Democratic Party and the Republican Party, 1960
Author: Ralph R. RobertsPublisher:
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Category : Presidents
Languages : en
Pages : 80
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Platforms of the Democratic Party and the Republican Party, 1964
Author: Democratic PartyPublisher:
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Category : Political parties
Languages : en
Pages : 84
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The Parties Versus the People
Author: Mickey EdwardsPublisher: Yale University Press
ISBN: 0300186029
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 250
Book Description
“An urgent and engaging look at how American politics have become the founding fathers’ worst nightmare” (The Daily Beast). America’s political system is dysfunctional. We know it, yet the problem seems intractable—after every election, voters discover yet again that political “leaders” are simply quarreling in a never-ending battle between the two warring tribes. As a former congressman, Mickey Edwards witnessed firsthand how important legislative battles can devolve into struggles not over principle but over party advantage. He offers graphic examples of how this problem has intensified and reveals how political battles have become nothing more than conflicts between party machines. In this critically important book, he identifies exactly how our political and governing systems reward intransigence, discourage compromise, and undermine our democracy—and describes exactly what must be done to banish the negative effects of partisan warfare from our political system and renew American democracy. “Overcoming tribalism and knee-jerk partisanship is the central challenge of our time. Mickey Edwards shows why and how in this fascinating book filled with sensible suggestions.” —Walter Isaacson, New York Times–bestselling author of Leonardo da Vinci “Many Americans, whether Democrats, Republicans, independent or otherwise, would welcome a few more like [Edwards] in office.” —The Boston Globe
Party, 1964 Platforms of the Democratic Party and the Republican Party, 1964
Author: Ralph R. RobertsPlatforms of the Democratic Party and the Republican Party
Author: Envisioning America and the American Self
Author: Scott AppelrouthPublisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1351607960
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 126
Book Description
This book explores the Democratic and Republican Party platforms from 1840 to 2016. As the only official, institutionally sanctioned document espousing the parties’ views on the state of the nation, the platforms present to the party faithful a diagnosis of what ails the country and the promise of possessing the necessary cure. In doing so, they offer more than a listing of specific issues in need of redress through legislative action, and moreover serve as a form of national storytelling through which political parties forge their vision of America and of what it means to be an American. Using topic modeling as an entry point into the documents, the author moves to consider more closely two related themes: those of how the platforms narrate the "American" self and individual freedom. With consideration of the extent to which the parties envision the self as an isolated economic actor or as an individual with a range of duties and obligations to a broader community, the spheres of action that they consider focal points for individual autonomy, and the extent to which they view liberty as freedom from restraint or freedom to act, this book sheds light on the historical trajectory of the growing fracture in American politics as well as the points of convergence across the two parties. Moreover, positing that behind their divisive rhetoric, both share a fundamental vision of what it means to be a "person," the author argues that perhaps their seemingly intractable differences are more a matter of degree than kind.