James T. Bennett. Stifling Political Competition: How Government Has Rigged the System to Benefit Demopublicans and Exclude Third Parties

摘要

Madison's Federalist 10 recognized that men have a natural tendency to divide into sects in the pursuit of power or their self-interest. Therefore, it was necessary to have effective checks and balances to protect against the harmful effects of factions or parties. In Stifling Political Competition, Bennett echoes these same sentiments as he leads the reader on a historical journey about the evolution of the American political party system where political parties began as wholly private, unregulated, and unsubsidized organizations to today's current dull, two-party system where candidates seems indistinguishable from one another due to the lack of competition necessary to facilitate real change.