Series: Princeton Studies in American Politics

As national political fights are waged at the state level, democracy itself pays the price Over the past generation, the Democratic and Republican parties have each become nationally coordinated political teams. American political institutions, on the other hand, remain highly decentralised. Laboratories against Democracy shows how national political conflicts are increasingly flowing through the subnational institutions of state politics—with profound...

A major history from the Founding to our embittered present that "explains the void" (Politico) at the centre of America's political parties Featured on The Ezra Klein Show and The Weekly Show with Jon Stewart America's political parties are hollow shells of what they could be, locked in a polarised struggle for power and unrooted as civic organisations. The Hollow...

A major history from the Founding to our embittered present that "explains the void" (Politico) at the centre of America's political parties. Featured on The Ezra Klein Show and The Weekly Show with Jon Stewart. America's political parties are hollow shells of what they could be, locked in a polarised struggle for power and unrooted as civic organisations. The Hollow...

Reforms at Risk is the first book to closely examine what happens to sweeping and seemingly successful policy reforms after they are passed. Most books focus on the politics of reform adoption, yet as Eric Patashnik shows here, the political struggle does not end when major reforms become enacted. Why do certain highly praised policy reforms endure while others are...