Few economic philosophies have shaped America’s prosperity as profoundly as Henry Clay’s American System – a blueprint for ...

Newly revised, The Basics of American Government offers a comprehensive overview of the American political system for students taking introductory courses in American national government and combines ...

Since the mid-1850's, the Democrats and Republicans have dominated the American political scene. As pervasive as it has become, however, the two-party system is not an inherent part of the federal ...

Since the Great Recession that began in 2008, many mainstream parties that have dominated political life in democracies like ...

One might argue that the current problem with America’s parties is not that they are too strong but that they are too weak. The basics of the political system – an independently elected ...

The system is not nearly as complicated as it ... If no candidate wins a majority outright (an increasingly frequent result in American politics), the candidate with the lowest number of votes ...

Lee Drutman is a senior fellow in the Political Reform program at New America and author of the forthcoming Breaking the Two-Party Doom Loop: The Case for Multiparty Democracy in America.

discussed the influence of money on the political system in the U.S., implicating his own party in the corruption he said it causes. “I think the entire American political system is corrupted by ...