“End Partisan Primaries, Save America”
Sen. Schumer endorses Top-Two in NYT oped. The political science does not (at least not yet) seem to support what Sen. Schumer thinks about the effects of top two, however.
Category Archives: political parties
“Leadership war stymies Senate mission”
Paul Kane for WaPo:
The Senate went three months this spring without voting on a single legislative amendment, the nitty-gritty kind of work usually at the heart of congressional lawmaking. So few bills have been approved this year, and so… Continue reading
“The Conversation: Dissecting a ‘no party preference’ campaign in California”
SacBee: “Two seasoned California campaign strategists, one a Republican and one a Democrat, who advised a “no party prefence” candidate running for secretary of state, discuss the campaign.”
Sragow: Dan didn’t make it into the general election for three… Continue reading
“Rumors of Bipartisanship’s Death are Greatly Exaggerated”
“More on the Mann-Corrado Brookings Paper: the Resistance to Campaign Finance Change as a Response to Polarization”
“Understanding and Misunderstanding the Political Parties—and the Question of Whether They Understand Themselves”
“Why the GOP is Holding Its Convention Early”
Byron Tau reports for Politico. (It’s about the campaign $)
“Koch Brothers group targets Iowa politics”
Des Moines Register/USA Today:
The main political branch of the conservative Koch brothers’ empire is mounting a full-scale mobilization to become a transformative political power in Iowa, the state where the battle for the presidency begins.
Americans for Prosperity… Continue reading
“House quietly approved amendment to help state GOP”
Boston Globe: “The House Republican leadership, with the cooperation of Democratic leaders, quietly attached an amendment to an election law bill last month that would allow the cash-strapped state GOP party to raise unlimited donations to pay for an… Continue reading
“What’s left of the political center?”
“Meet Sean Haugh, the Libertarian pizza guy who may deliver a Senate seat in N.C.”
“Montana Republican leaders: Closing primaries will wait”
The latest from Montana .More here.
65 Ways to Improve Our Democracy
Today the Bipartisan Policy Center’s Commission on Political Reform rolled out its recommendations and report today on strengthening American democracy. Academics are usually on the outside looking in for such processes, but I was lucky enough to serve as one… Continue reading
“Americans have not become more politically polarized”
Mo Fiorina on the Pew study.