Over at Third Way, a centrist political group, they recently shared a Harvard study that concluded bipartisan, moderate politics is the way for Washington to regain the faith of voters.
Here’s what they had to say: “In the last few weeks, it’s become all too clear that our nation is facing both a crisis in governance and a crisis of faith in politics.
Despite three consecutive wave elections in 2006, 2008 and 2010 that each resulted in shifts of political control, Americans are no happier with their representation in Congress. Moreover, Congress is headed toward a showdown over the federal budget that could cripple the nascent recovery and paralyze Capitol Hill.
In this new report, William Galston of the Brookings Institution and Elaine Kamarck of Harvard University, argue that political polarization—the loss of moderates from the political and policy process—is the root cause of the current crises in governance and politics. Galston and Kamarck argue that few causes are more important to America’s future than the embrace of political process reforms that will diminish the hyper-partisanship now disfiguring our nation’s politics.
