Civic Studies » elections http://civicstudies.org An intellectual community of researchers and practitioners dedicated to building the emerging field of civic studies Thu, 09 Apr 2026 15:57:17 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=3.8.41 a garbage-can model of political ideologies https://peterlevine.ws/?p=32785 https://peterlevine.ws/?p=32785#comments Tue, 22 Oct 2024 19:14:19 +0000 https://peterlevine.ws/?p=32785 Summary: This short essay explores four models for understanding political parties and ideologies: I argue that the first three models don’t fit US politics by themselves, and the last one (a “garbage-can” model) has some validity.We are familiar with a model in which each political party promotes an ideology, and we can place the various […]

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