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Author Muirhead, Russell, 1965- author.

Title The promise of party in a polarized age / Russell Muirhead
Published Cambridge, Massachusetts ; London, England : Harvard University Press, 2014
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Description 1 online resource (xii, 317 pages)
Contents The party problem -- The partisan threat -- The partisan community -- Reasonable partisans -- Loyal partisans -- The primary problem -- Partisanship at home : the legislature -- Partisanship beyond the legislature -- Can the government govern?
Summary Political conflicts are not simply manufactured from thin air, Russell Muirhead argues. They originate in authentic disagreements over what constitutes the common welfare. The remedy is not for parties to just get along but to bring a skeptical sensibility to their own convictions and learn to disagree as partisans and govern through compromise
Notes Includes index
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Notes In English
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Subject Republican Party (U.S. : 1854- )
Democratic Party (U.S.)
SUBJECT Democratic Party (U.S.) fast
Republican Party (U.S. : 1854- ) fast
Democratic Party USA gnd
Republican Party USA gnd
Subject Political parties -- United States.
Two-party systems -- United States
Political culture -- United States
Divided government -- United States
POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Political Process -- Elections.
POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Political Process -- General.
POLITICAL SCIENCE -- History & Theory.
Divided government
Political culture
Political parties
Two-party systems
Parteipolitik
Polarisierung
Politische Kultur
Zweiparteiensystem
United States
Form Electronic book
ISBN 9780674736023
0674736028
0674046838
9780674046832