The nationalization of American political parties, 1880-1896
This book investigates the creation of the first truly nationalized party organizations in the United States in the late nineteenth century, an innovation that reversed the parties' traditional privileging of state and local interests in nominating campaigns and the conduct of national campaign...
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| Language: | English |
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Cambridge
Cambridge University Press
2010
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| Collection: | Cambridge Books Online - Collection details see MPG.ReNa |
Table of Contents:
- Introduction
- 1. Localism and the Jacksonian mode
- 2. The nineteenth-century associational explosion and the challenge to the Jacksonian mode
- 3. Organizational transformation and the national parties
- 4. National campaign clubs and the party-in-the-electorate
- 5. Grover Cleveland and the emergence of presidential party leadership
- 6. Party transformation in the Republican Party
- Conclusion