Theodore Lowi, in PS (Fall 19831, American Political Science Associ- ation, 1527 New Hampshire Ave. N.W., Washington, D.C. 20036.
For more than a decade, Democrats and Republicans have searched for ways to shore up their party organizations. A vain exercise, declares Lowi, a Cornell political scientist. The best medicine for both would be a third national political party.
Lowi contends that Americans' thinking about third parties is mud- dled political myths. One article of faith, for example,...