Politics in the USA, Sixth Edition

50 The two-party system parties. When important problems of a potentially divisive nature arose, such as the Vietnam War, or civ ...

The two-party system 51 world, a powerful force against revolutionary change. And yet America of all countries in the world has ...

52 The two-party system of conservative values became an electoral asset. The emphasis was placed upon cutting back government e ...

The two-party system 53 of this persuasion was Irving Kristol, a former Trotskyite, who described how he saw the role of neocons ...

54 The two-party system potential political influence. Irving Kristol has described the reason for this as the neocons’ sense of ...

The two-party system 55 This simple fact immediately tends to polarise the political spectrum. The method of election prescribed ...

56 The two-party system and Congress attempt to influence the behaviour of the other; these links be- tween the two institutiona ...

The two-party system 57 from the point of view of the machinery of government, that direct participa- tion is conceivable in sma ...

58 The two-party system The New England town is an interesting institution, but throughout the United States it is the counties ...

The two-party system 59 reflected in, and work through, the political structures that alone can recon- cile these potentially co ...

60 The two-party system confined to the local level. Presidential candidates do not depend entirely on the formal party machiner ...

The two-party system 61 secretary of state, attorney general, treasurer, auditor and others, are usually subject to election. Th ...

62 The two-party system altered, and the mainstay of their power has vanished. Many of the former immigrants, their children and ...

The two-party system 63 American possessions such as Puerto Rico and the Virgin Islands. This re- sults in a large gathering but ...

64 The two-party system will have little impact. The selection of party candidates at state and local level is completely outsid ...

The two-party system 65 attack may turn to this very same political weapon as a means of asserting themselves in the community. ...

66 The two-party system cities throughout the United States. In 1992 the beating of a black man, Rodney King, by the Los Angeles ...

The two-party system 67 insistence upon the right of the individual to bear arms in his own defence, is a society in which viole ...

68 The two-party system party supports and the other opposes. Furthermore, neither party is ever wholly united against the other ...

The two-party system 69 as American society itself. The structure of federalism makes for an added complication, in that effecti ...