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- Title
American Voting and Nonvoting.
- Authors
Kiewiet, D. Roderick
- Abstract
This article comments on the paper The Eclipse of the Democratic Party, by Walter Dean Burnham. What Burnham finds reprehensible is the failure of the Democratic Party to propose a coherent, unabashedly socialist program for addressing the serious political and economic problems in the U.S. The Democrats have instead conceded control of the policy agenda to the Republicans, virtually by default, and abandoned much of their natural constituency to the party of nonvoters. Burnham does not explain why the Democrats have not moved leftward in order to tap this potential reservoir of electoral support. Whatever the reason, he feels that there is a great deal of reason to believe that the Democratic party really has become degenerate to a degree quite without parallel on the other side.
- Subjects
UNITED States; POLITICAL parties; POLITICAL systems; UNITED States politics &; government; ELECTIONS
- Publication
Society, 1984, Vol 21, Issue 5, p24
- ISSN
0147-2011
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1007/BF02695427