Nicholas Jacobs, Sidney Milkis

What Happened to the Vital Center?: Presidentialism, Populist Revolt, and the Fracturing of America

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Produktbeschreibung

What Happened to the Vital Center? demonstrates that American politics has become so rancorous because it has been unable to heal wounds opened up by Sixties-era protest and institutional change. While many scholars suggest that the answer to our current predicament is greater presidential power, this work shows that doubling down on the myth of transcendent presidential leadership is likely to exacerbate, not heal, our wounds. Instead, the authors recommend that a reconstituted party system may once again permit political leaders to prevent the worst excesses to democracy that now routinely roil the country.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Oxford University Press, USA
• Seitenzahl: 372
• Erscheinungstermin: 25. Januar 2022
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9780197603512
• ISBN-10: 0197603513
• Artikelnr.: 66143336

Autorenporträt

Nicholas F. Jacobs is an Assistant Professor at Colby College, where he teaches in the Government Department. Sidney M. Milkis is the White Burkett Miller Professor in the Department of Politics and a Faculty Fellow at the Miller Center at the University of Virginia.

Inhaltsangabe

* Preface
* 1. Introduction: Populism and American Democracy
* 2. The American Party System and Populist Upheaval: Mediating Anger
and Discontent, 1800-1945
* 3. Origins of Executive-Centered Partisanship and The Quest for
Responsible Party Government
* 4. Liberalism Transformed: The Democratic Party since 1960
* 5. Conservatism Redefined: The Republican Party since 1960
* 6. Culminating Developments: Presidential Power, Liberalism, and
Conservatism in the Twenty-first Century
* 7. Conclusion: Executive-Centered Partisanship and the Future of
American Democracy