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Response to Polsby and Wekkin

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  27 January 2009

Howard L. Reiter
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First I would like to thank Professors Polsby and Wekkin for their thoughtful comments on my article. I am also grateful to the Editors of the Journal for providing this forum for us to exchange our views.

Professor Polsby's first comment is that I have misinterpreted his position on the causes of the current sorry state of American political parties. In reply, I shall focus on his book, which provides the most elaborate development of his thoughts on the subject. The passage he cites in his third footnote is one of at least four which seem to agree with the thrust of my argument. however, in the context of a book that is, after all, entitled Consequences of party Reform, these qualifications are peripheral indeed.

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Research Article
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British Journal of Political Science , Volume 15 , Issue 4 , October 1985 , pp. 424 - 426
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Copyright © Cambridge University Press 1985

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