"The Hollow Parties" Book Tour Event
The Weidenbaum Center is thrilled to host authors Daniel Schlozman, Joseph and Bertha Bernstein Associate Professor of Political Science, John Hopkins University, and Sam Rosenfeld, Associate Professor of Political Science, Colgate University, who will discuss their new book, The Hollow Parties: The Many Pasts and Disordered Present of American Party Politics. The co-authors are currently on a book tour across the United States.
4:00-5:00 pm, Lecture and Q&A
5:00-6:00 pm, Reception
The book presents a comprehensive history of the rise of American mass party politics through the Jacksonian era up through the years of Barack Obama to the presidency of Donald Trump. The authors posit that today's Democrat and Republican parties, at once overbearing and ineffectual, have emerged from the interplay of multiple party traditions that reach back to the founding, and offer a vision for how these groups might fulfill their promise.
New York Times column citing the book
Copies of the book will be available at the event.