Guest Speaker: Christopher Baylor, Ph.D.
Date & Time: Saturday, October 24, at 1:30pm
Where We Meet: In Person or by Zoom to persons on our mailing list

“Democrats and Republicans disagree about a great deal, but they tend to agree on one thing: the other party is a major part of what is wrong with American politics. What if the problem goes deeper than either party? I ask whether political parties are really as necessary to democracy as other political scientists say. Political parties provide informational shortcuts for voters and mobilize turnout, but doing so at the cost of undermining political checks and balances as well as encouraging a form of motivated reasoning toward the in-group and against the out-group. What would we gain, and what might we lose, if parties as such played a much smaller role in American political life?”

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