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050 00 $aJK2261$b.B46 2008
100 1 $aBennett, James T.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n80025462
245 10 $aStifling political competition :$bhow government has rigged the system to benefit demopublicans exclude third parties /$cJames T.Bennett.
250 $a1st ed.
260 $aNew York :$bSpringer,$c[2008], ©2008.
300 $avii, 141 pages ;$c24 cm.
336 $atext$btxt$2rdacontent
337 $aunmediated$bn$2rdamedia
490 1 $aStudies in public choice ;$v6550
504 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index.
505 00 $g1.$tIntroduction -- $g2.$tThe American Suspicion of Parties -- $g3.$tNo Competition Allowed or He Who Controls the Ballot Controls the Election -- $g4.$tThen Along Came FECA -- $g5.$tFECA: The Demopublicans' Best Friend -- $g6.$tThe State Feeds the Party and the Party Feeds the State -- $g7.$tConclusion: Pulling the Plug?
520 1 $a"Stifling Political Competition examines the history and array of laws, regulations, subsidies and programs that benefit the two major parties and discourage even the possibility of a serious challenge to the Democrat-Republican duopoly. The analysis synthesizes political science, economics and American history to demonstrate how the two-party system is the artificial creation of a network of laws, restrictions and subsidies that favor the Democrats and Republicans and cripple potential challenges. The American Founders, as it has been generally forgotten, distrusted political parties. Nowhere in the U.S. Constitution are parties mentioned, much less given legal protection or privilege. This provocative book traces how by the end of the Civil War the Republicans and Democrats had guaranteed their dominance and subsequently influenced a range of policies developed to protect the duopoly."--BOOK JACKET.
650 0 $aPolitical parties$zUnited States.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85104375
650 0 $aThird parties (United States politics)$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85134900
650 0 $aPolitical corruption$zUnited States.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85033059
651 0 $aUnited States$xPolitics and government$y1945-1989.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85140467
651 0 $aUnited States$xPolitics and government$y1989-$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh93001744
830 0 $aStudies in public choice ;$v6550.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n42023968
852 00 $bleh$hJK2261$i.B46 2008