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Stop the Bloodletting
Empower Political Parties to Revive Democratic Accountability

The shrill cry that American democracy is dying rests on a misdiagnosis. If anything, we have introduced too much democracy in the wrong places.

Appeared in: Volume 14, Number 4 | Published on: October 2, 2018
Frances McCall Rosenbluth is Damon Wells Professor and Ian Shapiro is Sterling Professor of Political Science at Yale University. Their new book, Responsible Parties: Saving Democracy from Itself, is published by Yale University Press.
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