Stifling Political Competition: How Government Has Rigged the System to Benefit Demopublicans and Exclude Third Parties

by James T. Bennett

Book Overview

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...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0387098208
• ISBN13: 9780387098203
• Release Date: November 2008
• Publisher: Springer
• Length: 144 Pages
• Weight: 0.80 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.3" x 9.2"