Can We Rebuild Mass-Membership Political Parties?

Can We Rebuild Mass-Membership Political Parties?

For decades after World War II, political scientists, reform-minded politicians, and pundits lamented the weakness of American political parties. Parties were seen as ideologically incoherent, dominated by regional or group interests rather than unified around a clear platform — think of the fact, for instance, that at one time arch-segregationists and civil rights leaders belonged […]