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Divergent Democracy - (Princeton Studies in American Politics: Historical, Internat) by Katherine Krimmel

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  • An innovative examination of the shift by American political parties toward issue-based differentiation Recent Democratic and Republican party platforms display clear differences on such issues as abortion, LGBTQ+ rights, gun control, and the environment.
  • About the Author: Katherine Krimmel is assistant professor in the department of political science at Barnard College, Columbia University.
  • 296 Pages
  • Political Science, American Government
  • Series Name: Princeton Studies in American Politics

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"The United States has the most programmatic party system in the world: it has, that is, parties that compete with each other on the basis of differing policy positions. While this may seem obvious today, in our world where Republicans and Democrats seem to hold opposite opinions on every conceivable policy, this was not always the case. When the parties began competing with each other in 1856, they ran on a system of clientelism (the provision of material of support or jobs in exchange for political support). While this change has largely been conflated with rising polarization, Krimmel aims in this book to untangle programmaticism from polarization and shed new light on major changes in American democracy. In this book, Krimmel charts the evolution of programmaticism over time and--using a sophisticated, multi-method approach--builds a new measure to study and track this. She shows that programmaticism in American parties has risen and fallen and risen again--most recently ascending in 1960 and now at a level never before seen. She traces this change to the demise of local machine politics, the rise of national politics, and crucially to the civil rights movement which initiated a shift away from clientelistic practices in the American South"--



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An innovative examination of the shift by American political parties toward issue-based differentiation

Recent Democratic and Republican party platforms display clear differences on such issues as abortion, LGBTQ+ rights, gun control, and the environment. These distinctions reflect a programmatic party system--that is, one in which policy positions serve as a key basis of electoral competition. Yet party politics were not always so issue-oriented; the rise of policy positions as the dominant marker of party appeal occurred largely over the last fifty years. In Divergent Democracy, Katherine Krimmel examines this transformation of the American party system, using innovative machine learning techniques to develop and present the first measure of party differentiation on issues since Democrats and Republicans began competing with each other in 1856.

Why did the shift to issue-based party competition take more than a century to materialize? Krimmel offers a groundbreaking theory, focusing on what aids and constrains parties' abilities to do the difficult, conflict-ridden work of developing issue positions. She argues that clientelistic subnational party organizations, promising material support or jobs in return for votes, long impeded programmatic partisanship while the growth of national party organizations facilitated it. Moreover, institutions and agents of racial oppression extended the life of nonprogrammatic practices, as they attempted to shield discriminatory laws and institutions from interparty competition. Following the civil rights revolution of the 1960s, space opened for programmatic competition to grow.

Using both quantitative and qualitative tools, Krimmel offers a vital view of the foundations of today's issue-based party competition and its alternatives.



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"An interesting. . . . [and] excellent book."---Allison G. S. Knox, International Social Science review

"Innovative. . . . [A] rich trove of evidence regarding party history and the present state of American party politics."-- "Choice"



About the Author



Katherine Krimmel is assistant professor in the department of political science at Barnard College, Columbia University.
Dimensions (Overall): 9.25 Inches (H) x 6.12 Inches (W) x .67 Inches (D)
Weight: 1.01 Pounds
Suggested Age: 22 Years and Up
Number of Pages: 296
Series Title: Princeton Studies in American Politics
Genre: Political Science
Sub-Genre: American Government
Publisher: Princeton University Press
Theme: General
Format: Paperback
Author: Katherine Krimmel
Language: English
Street Date: July 23, 2024
TCIN: 89995114
UPC: 9780691257969
Item Number (DPCI): 247-35-5997
Origin: Made in the USA or Imported
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