“How Trump is rewriting the GOP’s rules to win in 2024”
Politico: “Trump’s team has worked behind the scenes to ensure delegate selection rules play to their favor — or, in their rivals’ telling, to ‘rig’ the system.”
Category Archives: political parties
APSA and Protect Democracy Report on Political Parties
APSA and Protect Democracy have issued a new report entitled “More than Red and Blue: Political Parties and American Democracy.” From the press release:
A new report released today by the American Political Science Association (APSA) and Protect Democracy… Continue reading
“Iowa GOP sets Jan. 15 for first-in-the-nation caucus, starting 2024 race”
WaPo:
Iowa’s first-in-the-nation caucuses will be held on Jan. 15, state Republicans voted on Saturday, kicking off the 2024 presidential nomination process.
The vote by the Iowa Republican Party’s state central committee, which scheduled the contest on the Martin… Continue reading
“The Associational Rights of Political Parties”
Sharing a chapter I have written for The Oxford Handbook of American Election Law (Eugene Mazo, ed.) (2023, forthcoming). The chapter, among other things, stresses the ways that the U.S. Supreme Court’s current approach to the associational freedom of political… Continue reading
“Our two-party political system isn’t working. The fix? More parties.”
Lee Drutman WaPo oped (adapted from his new report, “More Parties, Better Parties: The Case for Pro-Parties Democracy Reform.”)
It’s presidential campaign season, so pick your panic: The No Labels organization threatens to run a centrist such as… Continue reading
“The Democratic Party promised to overhaul its primaries. Doing that has been anything but simple”
AP:
New Hampshire is in open rebellion. Georgia is all but out.
South Carolina and Nevada are on board but face stiff Republican pushback. Michigan’s compliance may mean having to cut the state legislative session short, despite Democrats controlling both… Continue reading
Nevada Republican Party sues to stop from being forced to use a presidential primary instead of a caucus
A Nevada news outlet has the details here, and the news release from the Nevada Republican Party is here. It took me a while to find the complaint, which was filed in state court last week in a… Continue reading
“Cambodia Disqualifies Main Opposition Party Ahead of Election”
New York Times:
For the second consecutive parliamentary election, Cambodia has disqualified the country’s main opposition party, eliminating the only credible challenge to the ruling party of Prime Minister Hun Sen.
The country’s National Election Commission on Monday refused… Continue reading
Emerging Fight Over Party Control of Nominees
The Atlanta Journal-Constitution’s Greg Bluestein reports this morning on efforts by the Georgia Republican Assembly, a conservative faction within the state GOP, to change the party’s rules to permit the state party to block candidates from qualifying to run as… Continue reading
The Republican Party’s Invisible Primary
Seth Masket, writing at Politico, shares results of his survey of GOP county chairs about their current leanings in the 2024 presidential primary.
“Overall, this survey suggests a group of party insiders that hasn’t made up its mind, but… Continue reading
Party v. Public Opinion: The Remnants of a Politics Past
These days when a partisan official chooses to break with the party to represent the interests of his constituents it really is news. Last week, Merv Riepe, a Republican State Senator in Nebraska cast the vote that blocked the passage… Continue reading
Electing Women Could Reduce Polarization
A thanks to Lee Drutman for resurfacing a 2022 article in the American Political Science Review, based on an original dataset of political parties in 20 Western democracies, suggesting that having more elected officials who are women associated with… Continue reading
“Why so many women are on the way out after making historic gains in N.J. Legislature”
Redistricting and the “party line” in New Jersey primaries receive some (but not all) of the blame.
“How to Police Gerrymanders? Some Judges Say the Courts Can’t.”
The NYT “teaches the controversy” about policing partisan gerrymandering.
I have to say, I agree with some of the line-drawing concerns when it comes to deciding how much is too much. Which is why I’ve argued for a… Continue reading