US GOV: Political Parties Archives - Daniel Aaron Lazar Sat, 13 Jun 2020 08:44:42 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=7.0 NPR Interview: Mickey Edwards On Democracy's 'Cancer' https://daniellazar.com/2012/10/14/npr-interview-mickey-edwards-on-democracys-cancer/ Sun, 14 Oct 2012 14:54:38 +0000 http://www.daniellazar.com/?p=3909 In his 16 years in Congress, Republican Mickey Edwards came to a strong conclusion: Political parties are the “cancer at the heart of our democracy,” he tells Fresh Air‘s Terry Gross. In his new book, The Parties Versus the People, the former Republican congressman from Oklahoma details how party leaders have too much control over … Continue reading NPR Interview: Mickey Edwards On Democracy's 'Cancer' →

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]]> Readings on the Functions and Dysfunctions of Political Parties https://daniellazar.com/2008/06/29/readings-on-the-functions-and-dysfunctions-of-political-parties/ Sun, 29 Jun 2008 09:37:05 +0000 http://www.daniellazar.com/2008/06/29/readings-on-the-functions-and-dysfunctions-of-political-parties/ Richard Hofstadter (1916 – 1970) was an American historian and public intellectual. Hofstadter, the DeWitt Clinton Professor of American History at Columbia University, became the “iconic historian of postwar liberal consensus”, largely because of his emphasis on ideas and political culture rather than the day-to-day doings of politicians. Among his most important works is The … Continue reading Readings on the Functions and Dysfunctions of Political Parties →

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