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Two PartiesOr More?
Second Edition

Dilemmas in American Politics

Series Editor: L. Sandy Maisel, Colby College

If the answers to the problems facing American democracy were easy, politicians would solve them, accept credit, and move on. But, certain dilemmas have confronted the American political system continuously. They defy solution; they are endemic to the system. Some can best be described as institutional dilemmas: How can the Congress be both a representative body and a national decision maker? How can the President communicate with over 250 million citizens effectively? Why do we have a two-party system when many voters are disappointed with the choices presented to them? Others are policy dilemmas: How do we find compromises on issues that defy compromise, such as abortion policy? How do incorporate racial and ethnic minorities or immigrant groups into American society, allowing them to reap the benefits of this land without losing their identity? How do we fund health care for our poorest or oldest citizens?

Dilemmas such as these are what propel students toward an interest in the study of American government. Each book in the Dilemmas in American Politics Series addresses a real world problem, raising the issues that are of most concern to students. Each is structured to cover the historical and theoretical aspects of the dilemma, but also to explore the dilemma from a practical point of view and to speculate about the future. The books are designed as supplements to introductory courses in American politics or as case studies to be used in upper level courses. The link among them is the desire to make the real issues confronting the political world come alive in students eyes.

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EDITORIAL BOARD

Jeffrey M. Berry
Tufts University

John E Bibby
University of Wisconsin, Milwaukee

David T. Canon
University of Wisconsin, Madison

Rodolfo O. de la Garza
University of Texas, Austin

Diana Evans
Trinity College

Linda L. Fowler
Dartmouth College

Paul Gronke
Reed College

Rick Herrera
Arizona State University

Ruth S. Jones
Arizona State University

Robin Kolodny
Temple University

Jay Mc Cann
Purdue University

Paula D. McClain
Duke University

Karen OConnor
American University

Samuel C. Patterson
Ohio State University

Ronald B. Rapoport
The College of William and Mary

Craig A. Rimmerman
Hobart and William Smith Colleges

Wendy Schiller
Brown University

David Shribman
The Boston Globe

Walter J. Stone
University of California, Davis

BOOKS IN THIS SERIES

Two PartiesOr More? The American Party System, Second Edition,
John F. Bibby and L. Sandy Maisel

Can We All Get Along? Racial and Ethnic Minorities in American Politics, Third Edition,Paula D. McClain and Joseph Stewart Jr.

The Role of the Supreme Court in American Politics: The Least Dangerous Branch?,Richard L. Pacelle Jr.

The New Citizenship: Unconventional Politics, Activism, and Service, Second Edition,Craig A. Rimmerman

Onward Christian Soldiers? The Religious Right in American Politics, Second Edition,Clyde Wilcox

To Serve God and Mammon: Church-State Relations in American Politics,Ted Jelen

Money Rules: Financing Elections in America,Anthony Gierzynski

The Dysfunctional Congress? The Individual Roots of an Institutional Dilemma,Kenneth R. Mayer and David T. Canon

The Accidental System: Health Care Policy in America,
Michael D. Reagan

The Image-Is-Everything Presidency: Dilemma in American Leadership,
Richard W. Waterman, Robert Wright, and Gilbert St. Clair

The Angry American: How Voter Rage Is Changing the Nation, Second Edition,Susan J. Tolchin

Remote and Controlled: Media Politics in a Cynical Age, Second Edition,Matthew Robert Kerbel

Checks and Balances? How a Parliamentary System Could Change American Politics,Paul Christopher Manuel and Anne Marie Cammisa

Making Americans, Remaking America: Immigration and Immigrant Policy,Louis DeSipio and Rodolfo de la Garza

From Rhetoric to Reform? Welfare Policy in American Politics,
Anne Marie Cammisa

No Neutral Ground? Abortion Politics in an Age of Absolutes,
Karen OConnor

Payment Due: A Nation in Debt, a Generation in Trouble,
Timothy J. Penny and Steven E. Schier

Bucking the Deficit: Economic Policymaking in the United States,
G. Calvin Mackenzie and Saranna Thornton

Two Parties
Or More?

The American Party System,
Second Edition

John F. Bibby

University of Wisconsin, Milwaukee

L. Sandy Maisel

Colby College

Dilemmas in American Politics

First published 2003 by Westview Press

Published 2018 by Routledge

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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data

Bibby, John F.

Two parties-or more? : the American party system / John F. Bibby and L. Sandy Maisel. 2nd ed.

p. cm. (Dilemmas in American politics)

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN 0-8133-4030-6 (he : alk. paper) ISBN 0-8133-4031-4 (pbk: alk. paper)

1. Political partiesUnited StatesHistory. 2. Third parties
(United States politics)History. I. Maisel, Louis Sandy, 1945 II.

Title. III. Series.

JK2261 .B493 2002

324.273dc21

2002005027

ISBN 13: 978-0-8133-4031-9 (pbk)

To Lucile from John
To Patrice from Sandy

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AT TIMES ONE WONDERS what purpose an Editorial Board serves for a series such as this. For this series, this volume answers that question. We both have served on the Editorial Board for the Dilemmas in American Politics Series since its inception; Sandy Maisel is the series editor, and John Bibby was one of the first scholars he recruited to work with him. By design, the board is composed of leading scholars who have demonstrated an interest in undergraduate education. The goal of the series is to publish high-quality books that will stimulate student interest in introductory courses, to produce supplementary texts that will provide a real-world context for the more theoretical material often presented in such courses. The boards role has been to set the direction that the series will take.

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