The Tyranny of the Two-Party System
Publisher: Columbia University Press
Published: June 15, 2002
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 172
ISBN-13: 9780231110358
Subjects: Political parties; Political structure & processes; Political Science; Politics / Current Events; Politics/International Relations; USA; Government - U.S. Government; History & Theory - General; Political Process - Political Parties; Political Science / Government / National; Political; United States
First sentence: At a sparsely attended press conference in St. Paul, Minnesota on July 18, 1994, a third party and an incumbent state legislator made a historic announcement.
Description: Democrats and Republicans: is this duopoly an immutable and indispensable aspect of American democracy? In this text Lisa Jane Disch argues that it is not. This is an impassioned and eloquent argument in favour of third parties.