Search

Home > New Books in Political Science > John Aldrich and John Griffin, “Why Parties Matter: Political Competition and Democracy in the American South” (U Chicago Press, 2018)
Podcast: New Books in Political Science
Episode:

John Aldrich and John Griffin, “Why Parties Matter: Political Competition and Democracy in the American South” (U Chicago Press, 2018)
Category: Science & Medicine
Duration: 00:19:14
Publish Date: 2018-04-12 05:00:28
Description: John Aldrich and John Griffin are the co-authors of Why Parties Matter: Political Competition and Democracy in the American South (University of Chicago Press, 2018). Aldrich is the Pfizer-Pratt University Professor of Political Science at Duke University; Griffin is associate professor of political science at the University of Colorado, Boulder.
Why Parties Matter argues that competition between political parties is an essential component of a democracy. Competition facilitates responsiveness to citizens and a politics better able to address citizen concerns. Aldrich and Griffin follow the history of the parties in the United States through four eras—the Democratic—Whig party era that preceded the Civil War; the post-Reconstruction period; the Jim Crow era; and the modern era. They show the emergence of competition between the parties and when it succeeded and failed.
Total Play: 0