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"A New Yorker Best Book of the Year"
"Winner of the Merze Tate – Elinor Ostrom Outstanding Book Award, American Political Science Association"
"[A] landmark book."---Nancy MacLean, New Republic
"Brilliant. . . . Grumbach offers both a thoughtful examination of US federalism’s inherent perils and limits and a searching interpretation of how they are compounded in our current political climate."---Colin Gordon, Jacobin
"[Jacob Grumbach] contends in this lucid analysis that the nationalization of America’s major political parties threatens democracy. . . . Grumbach’s claims are persuasive and timely. This is a pinpoint diagnosis of a troubling political trend." * Publishers Weekly *
"The most persuasive and sweeping criticism of federalism yet."---Timothy Callaghan, Publius
"Grumbach is a bit of a unicorn: deeply committed to the highest standards of theoretical and empirical rigor, strikingly uninterested in upholding the façade of academic objectivity."---Jamila Michener, Democracy

Laboratories against Democracy

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      Publisher Princeton University Press
      Published 15 August 2023
      ISBN-13 9780691218465
      978-0691218465
      ISBN-10 0691218463
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      Central / national / federal government Political structure and processes Regional, state and other local government

      Description

      Book Synopsis


      Trade Review
      "A New Yorker Best Book of the Year"
      "Winner of the Merze Tate – Elinor Ostrom Outstanding Book Award, American Political Science Association"
      "[A] landmark book."---Nancy MacLean, New Republic
      "Brilliant. . . . Grumbach offers both a thoughtful examination of US federalism’s inherent perils and limits and a searching interpretation of how they are compounded in our current political climate."---Colin Gordon, Jacobin
      "[Jacob Grumbach] contends in this lucid analysis that the nationalization of America’s major political parties threatens democracy. . . . Grumbach’s claims are persuasive and timely. This is a pinpoint diagnosis of a troubling political trend." * Publishers Weekly *
      "The most persuasive and sweeping criticism of federalism yet."---Timothy Callaghan, Publius
      "Grumbach is a bit of a unicorn: deeply committed to the highest standards of theoretical and empirical rigor, strikingly uninterested in upholding the façade of academic objectivity."---Jamila Michener, Democracy

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