Too often, Wallace Hettle points out, studies of politics in the nineteenth-century South reinforce a view of the Democratic Party that is frozen in time on the

A political scholar and commentator evaluates the American electoral system and finds it lacking, applying four key standards for evaluating any democracy, and

Explores the idea of democracy, its current state of crisis, and its potential as a tool for change, sharing historical perspectives on the effectiveness of dem

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Those who do not have their heads buried too deeply in partisan sands will know that there is something awry with the American form of electoral democracy. Flor