How do parties respond to the electorate and craft winning strategies? In the abstract parties are the vehicles to make democracy work, but it is often difficult to see the process working as well as we think it might. Indeed, voters often struggle to see parties as the valuable vehicles of represen[...]
Jeffrey M. Stonecash analyzes election results during the last century, arguing that the separation of presidential and House results that occurred from the 1960s to 1980 was a party-driven process, with both parties seeking to change their electoral base.[...]