Data-Driven Discussion on Public Policy and Politics
In 2001, the last year before Metro began spending money on light rail, Houstonians took over 89 million trips on
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It is an idea that seems intuitively like it should work. Instead of us all separately driving a car to
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On Wednesday, City Council narrowly approved a sweeping revision of the flood rules specifying how high new buildings must be
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There is nothing which I dread so much as a division of the republic into two great parties .
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American democracy is at an impasse. After years of zero-sum partisan trench warfare, our political institutions are deteriorating. Our norms are collapsing. Democrats and Republicans no longer merely argue; they cut off contact with each other. In short, the two-party system is breaking our democracy, and driving us all crazy.
Deftly weaving together history, democratic theory, and cutting edge political science research, Drutman tells the story of how American politics became so toxic, why the country is trapped in a doom loop of escalating two-party warfare, and why it is destroying the shared sense of fairness and legitimacy on which democracy depends.