Resurrecting Party Loyalty. James MacGregor Burns

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It was Benjamin Disraeli who told his countrymen, "Damn your principles! Stick to your party." In this program with Bill Moyers, James MacGregor Burns claims that the creative life of politics depends upon the resurrection of party loyalty. Burns, who has been called a historian’s political scientist and a political scientist’s historian, has probed the American political system, past and present, to understand its strengths and weaknesses. He cites transactional leadership as the source of many poor policy decisions. In Burns’ opinion, the formation of temporary coalitions and alliances in the government leads to continual compromise and deadlock, and obscures a leader’s responsibility for bad decisions. (30 minutes)

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