Stifling Political Competition How Government Has Rigged the System to Benefit Demopublicans and Exclude Third Parties /

• Main Author: Bennett, James T. (Author)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: New York, NY : Springer New York, 2009.
• Series: Studies in Public Choice, 12
• Subjects: Political science.; History.; Political Science and International Relations.; Political Science.; History, general.

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 tr...

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?.