THE FUTURE OF AMERICAN POLITICAL PARTIES (Week 15)


(Note: this week’s lecture is entirely from the Hershey textbook, 16th edition, assigned in a previous class, Chapters 15-16)

 

Responsible Party System is like Great Britain's Parliamentary system, where the branches of government are unified in policy terms and implement their policy programs into law. The chief executive is the Prime Minister, and he or she is elected by the majority party in the Parliament.

 

Why a Responsible Party System would not be good for the United States:

When has the U.S. had Aspects of a Responsible Party System:

Party Renewal has been taking place in recent years, reversing the party decline of the 1960s: