This is a fascinating book. It is one of the best studies of the ways that parties and politics get conducted in any American state. Masket shows that legislators can be perfectly content without parties that control agendas and does a terrific job of explaining the transition from free-wheeling legislators to rigidly partisan voting blocs.
Sam Popkin, University of California at San Diego

No Middle Ground makes a significant contribution to the study of American parties and legislative politics.
Matthew Green, Catholic University of America

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