The Hollow Parties

Sam Rosenfeld is an associate professor of political science at Colgate University, specializing in party politics and American political development. His research interests include the history of political parties, the intersection of social movements and formal politics, and the politics of social and economic policymaking. His first book, The Polarizers: Postwar Architects of Our Partisan Era (University of Chicago Press, 2018), offers an intellectual and institutional history of party polarization in the postwar United States. His second book, coauthored with Daniel Schlozman of Johns Hopkins University, is titled The Hollow Parties: The Many Pasts and Disordered Present of American Party Politics. Forthcoming in May 2024 from Princeton University Press, The Hollow Parties tracks party development in the United States since the Founding to account for our contemporary political discontents. His writing has also appeared in the American Prospect, Boston Review, Democracy, n+1, the New Republic, the New York Times, Politico, the Washington Post, and Vox.

Daniel Schlozman is associate professor of political science at Johns Hopkins University. He is also the author of When Movements Anchor Parties: Electoral Alignments in American History.

Tom Beyer is a character actor who has appeared in over 100 TV shows, films, and commercials; has performed in innumerable plays and musicals; and has narrated many audiobooks. Grown in New York, fermented in Seattle, and aged in Los Angeles, his passions include Shakespeare, reading, intense physical exercise, and animal rescue. He has won awards for his stage work as both an actor and a director, and has adapted classical literature for the theater. He believes strongly in civic engagement, and volunteers for multiple organizations.