Download or read book The Divided Democrats written by William G. Mayer and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2018-02-02 with total page 215 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Do Democrats have greater difficulty maintaining party unity than Republicans? William Mayer argues that they do, chiefly because the Democrats are a more ideologically diverse, less cohesive party. After extensively documenting the Democrats' traditional problems of division and disagreement, Mayer presents evidence suggesting that the Republican advantage over the Democrats has finally started to narrow—raising important questions about the future of the Republican coalition.