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'Parties do not matter anymore.' Discuss. Some, such as political commentator David Broder in his book The Party's Over: The Failure of Politics in America, would argue that parties certainly don't matter any more in American politics. Many of the parties' traditional roles or functions have been assumed by pressure groups or the mass media, and clear party loyalties are less apparent now than fifty years ago. However, others would argue that the decline of parties has been vastly exaggerated and that parties still have an important and significant role in American politics. This essay will consider these two arguments and in doing so, establish whether parties really do matter anymore. One aspect of American politics where it could certainly be argued that parties do not matter any more is in elections. The rise of primaries and caucuses, in the aftermath of the publication of the Commission on Party Structure...

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