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  schema location: http://www.loc.gov/mods/v3 http://www.loc.gov/standards/mods/v3/mods-3-2.xsd
  title info:
    title: Stifling Political Competition
    sub title: How Government Has Rigged the System to Benefit Demopublicans and Exclude Third Parties
  name:
    name part: Bennett, James T.
    role:
      role term: creator
    role:
      role term: author.
  name:
    name part: SpringerLink (Online service)
  type of resource: text
  origin info:
    place:
      place term: xxu
    date issued: 2009
    issuance: monographic
  language:
    language term: eng
  physical description:
    form: electronic
    form: electronic resource
    reformatting quality: access
    form: remote
    extent: VIII, 144 p. online resource.
  abstract: Stifling Political Competition synthesizes political science, economics, and history to demonstrate how the two-party system is the artificial creation of a network of laws, restrictions, and subsidies that favor the Democrats and Republicans and cripple potential challengers, depriving voters of truly vigorous political debate. Daring in its criticism of the current state of affairs and provocative in its calls for radical reform, Stifling Political Competition is a timely and important contribution to any discussion of the impact of party politics and the prospects for achieving effective representation. Stifling Political Competition is a carefully researched and highly readable book that shows how federal, state, and local governments have enacted laws, regulations, and subsidies that discriminate in favor of the Democratic and Republican parties and virtually prohibit challenges by independent parties and candidates. The unfortunate result is limited choice in the political arena. This book is essential reading for anyone interested in political competition and public policy. Walter E. Williams, John M. Olin Distinguished Professor of Economics, George Mason University Finally, a book that exposes the reality that U.S. elections are substantially less free and less meaningful than elections in most other developed nations. Professor Bennett, an economist, has given us a book that should have emerged long ago from the ranks of political scientists. Stifling Political Competition is an interesting and very well-written study full of insights into the election process. Richard Winger, Editor, Ballot Access News In Stifling Political Competition, James Bennett combines a detailed historical analysis of the rise of the two party system with the insights of the public choice school of economics to explain how the American people are ill-served by laws that limit their choices at the ballot box. Every American looking for ways to increase voter participation and open …
  table of contents: The American Suspicion of Parties -- No Competition Allowed or He Who Controls the Ballot Controls the Election -- Then Along Came FECA… -- FECA: The Demopublicans’ Best Friend -- The State Feeds the Party and the Party Feeds the State -- Conclusion: Pulling the Plug?.
  note: by James T. Bennett.
  subject:
    topic: Political science
  subject:
    topic: History
  subject:
    topic: Political Science and International Relations
  subject:
    topic: Political Science
  subject:
    topic: History, general
  classification: JA1-92
  classification: 320
  related item:
    title info:
      title: Springer eBooks
  related item:
    title info:
      title: Studies in Public Choice, 12
  identifier: 9780387098210
  identifier: http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-0-387-09821-0
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    record creation date: 100301
    record change date: 20151204151449.0
    record identifier: 978-0-387-09821-0