Submitted by Arts & Sciences Web Team on June 4, 2014 - 5:34pm
In the midst of the Congressional primaries taking place across America this summer, the Tea Party’s history continues to be written. Tea Party membership and funding have continued to grow over the last year, yet the media has proclaimed the Tea Party dead no less than 18 times. In this paper, Christopher S. Parker asks whether the Tea Party is an “astroturf” or “grassroots” political movement. Parker argues for the latter, demonstrating that the Tea Party has real staying power in the current political climate.
Read more at Brookings Institution web site: "Wither the Tea Party? The Future of a Political Movement"