Sam M. Rosenfeld

Oct 30, 2024 | lawliberty.org | Daniel Schlozman |Sam M. Rosenfeld |Philip A. Wallach |John O. McGinnis

We live in a partisan age. But the party organizations themselves are floundering. Outsiders Donald Trump and Bernie Sanders crashed the gates with surprising ease in 2016, anti-establishment populist enthusiasms crop up across the spectrum, and one would be hard pressed to articulate an overarching vision for either party these days, beyond hating the other. More Americans now identify as political independents, a group that is now a clear plurality.

Sep 9, 2024 | bostonreview.net | Sam M. Rosenfeld |Daniel Schlozman

Drutman is a rarity in American politics: a process-oriented reformer who is also a cheerleader for political parties. Ever since the Gilded Age, reformers aiming to fiddle with rules, clean up politics, and make it less nasty have tended to be anti-party. In their eyes, parties and party politicians divide society and foment needless anger. Drutman deserves great credit for rejecting this outlook. 
Nevertheless, his vision of pro-party reform retains a distinctly limited character.

Aug 20, 2024 | foreignaffairs.com | Daniel Schlozman |Sam M. Rosenfeld |Jessica Mathews |Doris Kearns Goodwin

In This Review In This Review The Hollow Parties: The Many Pasts and Disordered Present of American Party PoliticsThe authors are passionate believers in the vital role that the major political parties should play in American democracy, one they fear both parties have relinquished over the past half century.

Jul 30, 2024 | nybooks.com | Sam M. Rosenfeld |Daniel Schlozman

Why did it take them so long? The warning signs were clear to see. Long before the debate on June 27, Joe Biden was unpopular. Since September 2021 his approval ratings had been negative, and since early 2023 they had trended downward. In most pre-debate polls he ran behind an also unpopular Republican nominee. Plenty of Democrats were queasy about running an octogenarian. Columnists sent public distress signals that echoed the private chatter.

May 7, 2024 | bookshop.org | Daniel Schlozman |Sam M. Rosenfeld

Description A major history from the Founding to our embittered present that "explains the void" (Politico) at the center of America's political parties Featured on The Ezra Klein Show and America's political parties are hollow shells of what they could be, locked in a polarized struggle for power and unrooted as civic organizations. takes readers from the rise of mass party politics in the Jacksonian era through the years of Barack Obama and Donald Trump.