Woodrow Wilson & the Problem of Party Government
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 6355395 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Daniel Stid (corresponding author), Daniel D Stid |
| Year | 1994 |
| Volume | 26 |
| Issue | 4 |
| Pages | 553-578 |
| Publication date | 1994-06-01 |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Polity (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0032-3497 • E-ISSN: 1744-1684 |
| Publisher | University of Chicago Press (PUBLISHER • US) |
| DOI | 10.2307/3235095 |
| OpenAlex | W2334367653 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 4 |
Of all Americans, Woodrow Wilson has arguably been the most sensitive to the problem of establishing and maintaining a type of partisanship that might facilitate governing and, at the same time, enjoy widespread legitimacy. His solution to the problem of party government emerges as more nuanced and pragmatic than the "responsible party model" advanced later, though it is nonetheless genuine in its commitment to partisanship. Despite the wisdom and conviction embodied in Wilson's solution, the theoretical and political difficulties he encountered, first as a reform-minded political scientist, then as a statesman attempting to put his theory into practice, suggest that the problem of party government in the United States is an intractable one
Conviction · Divided government · Embodied cognition · Epistemology · Government (linguistics · Law and economics · Legitimacy · Political science · Politics · Politics of the United States · Sociology · American Constitutional Law and Politics · American History and Culture · Law · Political and Economic history of UK and US · Public Administration
| Citations per year | 0.67 |
|---|---|
| Citation span | 2020 - 2025 (6) |
| Highly cited | No |