The Democrats Must Lead: The Case for a Progressive Democratic Party

ISBN-13: 9780367306670 / Angielski / Miękka / 2021 / 279 str.

James MacGregor Burns; William J. Crotty; Lois Lovelace Duke

Opis

This book discusses that a vital two-party system is essential to America's political health. It emphasizes the need for new leadership, proposes contributions that a progressive Democratic party could make, and suggests what this party should stand for and how it can win in 1992.

Spis treści

Preface -- A Party That Can Lead/A Party That Should Lead -- The Democrats Must Lead—But How? -- Why We Still Need Real Political Parties -- The National Democratic Party Can Lead -- Who Needs Two Republican Parties? -- A Congressional Party Must Stand for Something -- Getting the Message Across: How? To Whom? -- Dump Dixie—West Is Best: The Geography of a Progressive Democracy -- What to Say and How to Say It? -- Television, the 1992 Democratic Presidential Hopeful, and Electoral Success -- Minority Politics and “Political Realities” in American Politics -- Progressive Democrats and Support for Women’s Issues -- Latinos and the Democratic Party -- A Politics of Substance -- A Democratic Economic Policy -- A New World Order That Means Something -- Winning a Government: Reinvigorating the Political System