Are The American Political Parties Sectional Or Non-doctrinal?
Anywhere in the countries of the world, politics and economics are closely connected. But nowhere have the economic interests dominated the national politics so much as in America. The American parties belong to different economic interests. The Republican Party finds its centre of economic gravity in the industrial and financial interests of the nation. The Democratic Party derives its support from the agriculture interests of the country. Hence the sectional character of the parties No doubt owing to industrialization this old line of distinction has become blurred, yet another type of sectionalism as come into existence. American Government usually has ‘economic surplus’ which has to be distributed among different interests. There are four main sectional interests in the country: (a) The industrial section producing both for export and home consumption, (b) the financial section including all kinds of financiers, (c) the labor section, and (d) the agriculture section. The attempt of
