The Inevitable Party: Why Attempts to Kill the Party System Fail and How They Weaken DemocracySeth Masket's The Inevitable Party is a study of anti party reforms and why they fail. Numerous reform movements over the past century have designated parties as the enemy of democracy, and they have found a willing ally in the American people in their efforts to rein in and occasionally root out parties. Masket investigates several of these anti party reform efforts from open primaries to campaign finance restrictions to nonpartisan legislatures