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Steven L. Taylor
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Wednesday, December 31, 2025
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About Steven L. Taylor
Steven L. Taylor is a Professor Emeritus of Political Science and former College of Arts and Sciences Dean. His main areas of expertise include parties, elections, and the institutional design of democracies. His most recent book is the co-authored
A Different Democracy: American Government in a 31-Country Perspective. He earned his Ph.D. from the University of Texas and his BA from the University of California, Irvine. He has been blogging since 2003 (originally at the now defunct Poliblog).
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Re Krugman’s column…
What is the Heritage Foundation good for? It’s an established non-profit with a name easily confused with other “Heritage” organizations where dark money can stash people and pay them $100K per year.
It’s a lot harder to start a new political party today than it was in 1850. There are more states. The states have many more requirements that require a major party to have significant staff and money. The Libertarians and Greens have been at it for many years, and still can’t reliably get their presidential candidate on the ballot in all 50 states. Let alone candidates in 100 Senate races or 435 House races.
One should point out that by Roberts and his accomplices definition it isn’t corruption unless there’s a specific, provable quid pro quo, and we can see why they like that definition. And Roberts has made the tightly reasoned originalist argument that we must respect the Court just because. Behaving respectably is way too radical an idea for Roberts.