We hear often that America has a “two-party system,” but most people don’t understand that state and Federal laws favoring (what I will call) the two official parties are without precedent among peer democracies; that the… Read more »
Many, if not most, elected Republicans have fallen into line behind Trump, who is now within striking distance of the White House following last week’s convention bounce. However, some Republican officials… Read more »
A President Trump is a threat to U.S. democracy for two major reasons: despite the intentions of the Framers of the Constitution, the U.S. president has become extremely powerful due to… Read more »
Sorry, that headline, although accurate, is a bit outdated. The Republican Platform called for reforming the electoral college three times: 1948: “We favor a revision of the procedure for the election… Read more »
Arend Lijphart is perhaps the foremost authority in the world on comparative electoral systems. He was born in the Netherlands but has spent his entire career in the United States…. Read more »
Andrew Sullivan says that the rise of Trump is the result of too much democracy. First he claims that the American political system was designed to thwart democracy: To guard our democracy… Read more »
Bernie Sanders has probably done more to promote social democracy in the U.S. than anyone since FDR. Or at least he has done more to develop an organized constituency in favor of… Read more »