Responsible Parties Saving Democracy from Itself

How popular democracy has paradoxically eroded trust in political systems worldwide, and how to restore confidence in democratic politics -- In recent decades, democracies across the world have adopted measures to increase popular involvement in political decisions. Parties have turned to primaries...

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Main Author: Rosenbluth, Frances McCall
Other Authors: Shapiro, Ian
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: New Haven , London Yale University Press 2018 ©2018
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520 3 |a How popular democracy has paradoxically eroded trust in political systems worldwide, and how to restore confidence in democratic politics -- In recent decades, democracies across the world have adopted measures to increase popular involvement in political decisions. Parties have turned to primaries and local caucuses to select candidates; ballot initiatives and referenda allow citizens to enact laws directly; many places now use proportional representation, encouraging smaller, more specific parties rather than two dominant ones.Yet voters keep getting angrier.There is a steady erosion of trust in politicians, parties, and democratic institutions, culminating most recently in major populist victories in the United States, the United Kingdom, and elsewhere. -- Frances Rosenbluth and Ian Shapiro argue that devolving power to the grass roots is part of the problem. Efforts to decentralize political decision-making have made governments and especially political parties less effective and less able to address constituents’ long-term interests. They argue that to restore confidence in governance, we must restructure our political systems to restore power to the core institution of representative democracy: the political party.