TY  - BOOK
AU  - Jacobs,Nicholas F.
AU  - Milkis,Sidney M.
TI  - What happened to the vital center?: presidentialism, populist revolt, and the fracturing of America 
T2  - Oxford scholarship online
SN  - 9780197603550 (ebook) :
AV  - JK2261 
U1  - 324.273 23
PY  - 2022///
CY  - New York, NY
PB  - Oxford University Press
KW  - Political parties
KW  - United States
KW  - Executive power
KW  - Polarization (Social sciences)
N1  - Also issued in print: 2022; Includes bibliographical references and index; Specialized
N2  - This title demonstrates that American politics has become so rancorous because it has been unable to heal wounds opened up by Sixties-era protest and institutional change. While many scholars suggest that the answer to our current predicament is greater presidential power, this work shows that doubling down on the myth of transcendent presidential leadership is likely to exacerbate, not heal, our wounds. Instead, the authors recommend that a reconstituted party system may once again permit political leaders to prevent the worst excesses to democracy that now routinely roil the country
UR  - https://go.openathens.net/redirector/lords.parliament.uk?url=http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780197603512.001.0001
ER  -