The US is swinging like a pendulum between more autocratic and more democratic forms of government. How long will this destabilizing pattern last?
- Associate Professor of Political Science, George Mason University
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Party platforms help create parties, not the other way around. A political party expert explains what platforms are, why they matter and for whom.
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