Category Archives: political parties
“Parties Coming to More Agreement (Just Not on Who Deserves Credit)”
Carl Hulse NYT analysis.
“Potential roadblock for Bernie Sanders rises in New Hampshire”
CNN reports.
MORE from Weigel.
“State high court quickly ousts Shirley Abrahamson as chief justice”
No surprise in Wisconsin.
“Recommended Reforms to California’s Top Two”
“How ‘Negative Partisanship’ Has Transformed American Politics”
Jonathan Chiat:
Emory political scientists Alan Abramowitz and Steven Webster have a new paper, not yet available online, exploring the nature of the new polarization. The paper is filled with interesting findings, but the major one is an attempt… Continue reading
“Democrats Keep Lead in Party Identification”
Nate Cohn analysis at NYT’s The Upshot.
The Political Safeguards of Horizontal Federalism
Over at Balkinization, I’ve been blogging (here, here, here, and here) about the benefits associated with spillovers, which occur when one state’s policies affect citizens of another state. Most of those arguments have to do… Continue reading
“McConnell Makes Changes, but Senate Gridlock Remains”
NYT:
WASHINGTON — When he became majority leader, propelled by sweeping Republican victories last year, Senator Mitch McConnell of Kentucky vowed to run a more productive and traditional Senate than his Democratic predecessor, Senator Harry Reid of Nevada.
In… Continue reading
“Kentucky’s Rand Paul caucus problem”
Joshua Spivak at The Hill.
“What a Kentucky Presidential Caucus Would Mean For Overseas Voters”
Schmitt on Reform Skeptics and Romantics
Mark Schmitt has written a thoughtful piece about democratic romanticism in the recent edition of the journal Democracy (http://www.democracyjournal.org/36/democratic-romanticism-and-its-critics.php). In it, he identifies “an increasingly influential group of scholars and journalists” who form a “school of skeptics” about… Continue reading
“Spare Annapolis the dysfunction of D.C.”
David Lublin oped in the Baltimore Sun.
“Iowa caucuses are a poor proxy for America”
Rick Ridder oped.
See also my 2012 Slate piece, Kill the Caucuses!