Richard M. Valelly is Claude C. Smith '14 Professor of Political Science at Swarthmore College. His publications include Princeton Readings in American Politics, The Two Reconstructions, which won several prizes, and Radicalism in the States.
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American politics seems to grow more contentious and complicated by the day, and whether American democracy works well is hotly debated. Amidst all this roiling partisan argument and confusing claims and counterclaims, there has never been a greater need ... SEE MORE