It is nice to see you again. Your book, breaking the twoparty do with the mystery of Political Science and has garnered a lot of attention. I just want to start out by pulling you back a little bit and asking you why do you want to write about Political Parties . Your first book was focused on lobbying within the universe of potential reform college and money in politics and executive power, you chose to focus on parties as the linchpin. Can you talk about what drew you two parties in the process . Its good to be with us light reunion here on cspan. So why did i write this book . Because i was worried about american democracy and i saw hyper partisanship as a serious problem affecting the country and wanted to see if there was a way to solve that problem. It imploded it directly from my previous book which is about corporate lobbying the map book had concluded one reason why lobbyists were so powerful in washington dc was because they broke a lot of laws there wasnt knowledge or expert
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Massive voter purging with a democracy is dead in the usa also more coming up in todays going on the ground the 1st there have been allegations of a deliberate lack of coverage in the u. K. Of arguably the journalism trial of the century around the world the Julian Assange just fight for freedom in a london court has made headlines including in india where journalists found time to cover the wiki leaks founder has plunked him its donald trump state visit joining me now from northampton massachusetts is professor. Who has been following signs of sectarian violence in the Worlds Largest democracy and use message in support of a songe was read out by Pink Floyd Founder Roger Waters in pomona square this week thanks so much for coming on before we get to that multimillion multi 1000000000 dollar arms deals in india with donald trump your reaction to the trial here in london you know the fact is that journalists like you and i. All the destruction of countries or an immense debt to people l