Laboratories Against Democracy: How National Parties Transformed State Politics Grumbach Jacob
Laboratories Against Democracy: How National Parties Transformed State Politics Grumbach Jacob How national political fights are increasingly being waged at the state level--and how democracy itself…
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Laboratories Against Democracy: How National Parties Transformed State Politics Grumbach Jacob
How national political fights are increasingly being waged at the state level--and how democracy itself is paying the priceOver the past generation, the Democratic and Republican parties have each become nationally coordinated political teams. Laboratories against Democracy shows how national political conflicts are increasingly flowing through the subnational institutions of state politics--with profound consequences for public policy and American democracy.Jacob Grumbach argues that as Congress has become more gridlocked, national partisan and activist groups have shifted their sights to the state level, nationalizing state politics in the process and transforming state governments into the engines of American policymaking. American political institutions, on the other hand, remain highly decentralized.
He shows how this has had the ironic consequence of