Checked and Balanced   (book)

Checked and Balanced: How Ticket-Splitters Are Shaping the New Balance of Power in American Politics

Does the party system circumvent the checks and balances written into the Constitution? Do voters trust political parties? What do the current political trends indicate? All of these questions and more are brought up in this book about the political phenomenon of "ticket splitting," or voting for a Presidential candidate from one party and a House or Senate representative from the opposing party. That this practice is common enough to have a book written about it says a lot about trust of the parties by itself, IMHO.