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The Case for Strong Parties

Washington’s Farewell Address The common and continual mischiefs of the spirit of party are sufficient to make it the interest and duty of a wise people to discourage and restrain it. It serves always to distract the public councils and enfeeble the public administration. It agitates the community with ill-founded jealousies and false alarms, kindles the animosity of one part against another, foments occasionally riot and insurrection. It opens the door to foreign influence and corruption, which finds a facilitated access to the government itself through the channels of party passions. Thus the policy and the will of one country are subjected to the policy and will of another.

What’s good about parties?

What’s a strong party?

APSA Report, 1950

Positive functions of parties (from APSA) Help people hold the government accountable Forge compromises among interests

Ideal party Effective and responsible –Cohesive –Programmatic Effective opposition party

Didn’t have the ideal model in 1950 Senate/House/National/State/Local parties all have different leaders and strategies National Convention and Committee not policymaking bodies Ambiguous membership No coherent ideology or platform Little unity of those in office Why? Voluntary association Federalism Parties particularly ideologically divided in 1950

Presidential Elections

Presidential Elections

Presidential Elections

Presidential Elections

Presidential Elections

7 Southern Republicans, 1960 Mountain Republicans: –Howard Baker, Eastern Tennessee –B. Carroll Reece, Eastern Tennessee –Richard Poff, Southwestern Virginia –Charles Jonas, Blue Ridge North Carolina Centers of Northern Migration: –William Cramer, St. Petersburg, FL –Bruce Alger, suburban Dallas –Joel Broyhill, suburban DC, Virginia

Percent of all votes on which a majority of Democrats vote against a majority of Republicans

House party unity (percentage of members voting with a majority of their party on party unity votes)

Prescriptions A smaller governing body Regional conferences and internal democracy Stronger national party infrastructure Platform more binding More party unity and responsibility in Congress Closed primaries, no cross filing

What’s different today? Do we have closer to the responsible party model? In what ways? In what ways do we not?

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