Question for #Polisky: I’ve generally found the concept of a “faction” in US politics to be under-explored and under-theorized. In the sub-party literature, there’s tons of research on voters and interest groups, but little on factions like the New Dems, etc. Is that true? If not, where is it?

Something like this? www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

I don't know the answer to this. But the question that occurs to me is "factions" as DC centric pressure groups who claim to speak for certain voters who may only dimly or not at all know the faction exists and mass groups which have some cognizance of themselves as a group & and act in ...