Politics Without Winners: Can Either Party Build a Majority Coalition?Key Points
- The American party system is in an unusual extended deadlock, with two minority parties, neither capable of sustaining a durable winning coalition.
- Both parties have plausible avenues to build a lasting majority coalition, but to do so, they must understand their 21st-century failures.
- The party system’s history and new data from AEI’s Survey Center on American Life show how the parties might do this.
- Durable majority parties are not only possible; they are the norm in American politics. But they require self-conscious coalition building.
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