and the outsize influence of special interests and lobbyists are each seen as characteristic of the U.S. political system by at least 84% of Americans. Yet 63% also say that “ordinary Americans care ...

This year, we asked POLITICO reporters to tell us: What are the trends in politics that died ... growing irrelevance — of key ...

This year, we asked POLITICO reporters to tell us: What are the trends in politics that died ... growing irrelevance — of key aspects of our political ecosystem. Read on, and feel free to ...

Both were conducted on Pew Research Center’s nationally representative American Trends Panel. A little more than a year ... to describe in their own words their feelings about the political system and ...

So why, then, are they now the two candidates to be president? The answer is the two-party political system. While third parties occasionally make some noise, they never threaten the Democrat ...

"Many existing political systems are inefficient, unstable, or undemocratic," said Alan Cohen, Ph.D., associate professor in the Butler Columbia Aging Center, and Principal Investigator on the study.