{"product_id":"on-the-side-of-the-angels-9780691148144","title":"On the Side of the Angels","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003ePolitical parties are the defining institutions of representative democracy and the darlings of political science. This account moves between political theory and political science, and uses resources from both fields to outline an appreciation of parties and the moral distinctiveness of partisanship.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"Incisive and deftly written... The most provocative part of On the Side of the Angels is not the discussion of parties as institutions; most people will readily grant that democracies require parties. What is more striking is Rosenblum's case for partisanship.\"--Paul Starr, New Republic \"Rosenblum's analysis ... adds much greater rigor, clarity, and depth to [existing scholarship]... Even more, she creates a defense of partisan identification that is, at least to this reviewer, totally original.\"--John Aldrich, Perspectives on Politics\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAcknowledgments ix  Introduction: An Appreciation of Parties and Partisanship 1      PART I Glorious Traditions of Antipartyism and  Moments of Appreciation  Chapter 1: Glorious Traditions of Antipartyism: Holism 25  Chapter 2: Glorious Traditions of Antipartyism: Fatal Divisiveness 60  Chapter 3: Moments of Appreciation 108      PART II Post-Party Depression  Chapter 4: Progressive Antipartyism 165  Chapter 5: Th e Anxiety of Infl uence 210  Chapter 6: Correcting the System: Association, Participation,  and Deliberation 254      PART III The Moral Distinctiveness of \"Party ID\"  Chapter 7: Partisanship and Independence 319  Chapter 8: Centrism and Extremism and an Ethic  of Partisanship 369  Chapter 9: Militant Democracy: Banning Parties 412  Conclusion: \"We Partisans\" 456  Notes 461  Index 577","brand":"Princeton University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49403779154263,"sku":"9780691148144","price":28.8,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9780691148144.jpg?v=1730484519","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/on-the-side-of-the-angels-9780691148144","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}