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The Hollow Parties The Many Pasts and Disordered Present of American Party Politics (Princeton Studies in American Politics)

Daniel Schlozman

A major history from the Founding to our embittered present that “explains the void” ( America’s political parties are hollow shells of what they could be, locked in a polarized struggle for power and unrooted as civic organizations.

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The Ezra Klein Show

The hosts said the book traced how both major parties have been hollowed out over decades, turning oncepowerful gatekeeping institutions into vessels for candidate ideologies.

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It's a story that the political scientists Daniel Schlozman and Sam Rosenfeld tell in their new book, The Hollow Parties, the many pasts and disordered present of American party politics.

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The hosts said the book traced how both major parties have been hollowed out over decades, turning oncepowerful gatekeeping institutions into vessels for candidate ideologies.

"

It's a story that the political scientists Daniel Schlozman and Sam Rosenfeld tell in their new book, The Hollow Parties, the many pasts and disordered present of American party politics.

They argued that this change has been perilous for our democracy.

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