Democrats Must Lead

"James MacGregor Burns is Woodrow Wilson Professor of Government Emeritus at Williams College and is currently on the faculty at the Jepson School of Leadership Studies at the University of Richmond. A Pulitzer Prize-winning historian, he has published widely in the area of American government and politics and is the founder of Political Scientists for a Progressive Democratic Party. William Crotty is professor of political science at Northwestern University. He is the author of a number of books on political parties and elections, including The Party Game, Party Reform, Political Reform and the American Experiment, and Decision for the Democrats, and editor and co-editor of several other works including Political Parties in Local Areas, Political Participation and American Democracy, and the four-volume Political Science: Looking to the Future. He has served as president of the Midwest Political Science Association, the Policy Studies Organization, and the Political Organizations and Parties Section of the American Political Science Association from which he received the Samuel J. Eldersveld Lifetime Achievement Award in 1991. He is presently co-chair of Political Scientists for a Progressive Democratic Party. Lois Lovelace Duke is associate professor of political science at Clemson University and co-chair of Political Scientists for a Progressive Democratic Party. She is author of many pieces on media and politics and on women and politics, including the forthcoming Women and Politics: Have the Outsiders Become Insiders? Lawrence D. Longley, professor of government at Lawrence University in Appleton, Wisconsin, is the author of more than seventy articles, papers, and books on American politics and political institutions, including Bicameral Politics (on Congress), The People’s President (on the American presidency), and his forthcoming Changing the System (on U.S. and British electoral reform). A long-time grassroots Democratic party activist in Wisconsin, he served five terms as a county political party chairman and has been elected to the State Party Administrative (Central) Committee since 1971. Currently a member of the Democratic National Committee, Professor Longley will be an automatic, unpledged, and determinedly uncommitted delegate to the 1992 Democratic National Convention in New York City."

• Preface -- A Party That Can Lead/A Party That Should Lead -- The Democrats Must Lead—But How? -- Why We Still Need Real Political Parties -- The National Democratic Party Can Lead -- Who Needs Two Republican Parties? -- A Congressional Party Must Stand for Something -- Getting the Message Across: How? To Whom? -- Dump Dixie—West Is Best: The Geography of a Progressive Democracy -- What to Say and How to Say It? -- Television, the 1992 Democratic Presidential Hopeful, and Electoral Success -- Minority Politics and “Political Realities” in American Politics -- Progressive Democrats and Support for Women’s Issues -- Latinos and the Democratic Party -- A Politics of Substance -- A Democratic Economic Policy -- A New World Order That Means Something -- Winning a Government: Reinvigorating the Political System