New Party Politics From Jefferson and Hamilton to the Information Age

, by White, John Kenneth; Shea, Daniel M.

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ISBN: 9780312152543 | 031215254X
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Copyright: 4/7/2000

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The authors of this fresh new text on American political parties employ an engaging writing style, a strong historical foundation, and a new analogy for understanding party systems to produce a compelling textbook. White and Shea trace the evolution of parties from the late 18th century through the Information Age, examining the impact of new information technologies throughout the text.

Preface

About the Authors

xvii

Introduction: Rethinking Political Parties in the Information Age

(10)

Notes

(2)

Political Parties in an American Setting

(20)

Political Parties: Institutions Americans Love to Hate

(4)

Praise from the Ivory Tower

(1)

Politics without Parties

(1)

The Parties Speak: Gejdenson versus White on the Importance of Political Parties

(1)

Three Important Party Distinctions

(9)

How Parties Differ from Other Organizations

(1)

The Components of American Political Parties

(2)

Does the Tripod Work in the Information Age?

(2)

What Do Political Parties Seek to Accomplish?

(4)

The Battle of the Titans: Hamilton Versus Jefferson

(3)

Like God, Parties are Not Dead

(1)

Further Reading

(1)

Notes

(2)

The Ascendance of Party Politics

(22)

The Pre-Party Era

(1)

The Colonial Experience

(3)

Nascent Parties: Federalists Versus Republicans

(3)

Party Rule: 1824--1912

(12)

Breakdown and Renewal: The Election of 1824

(1)

The Jackson-Van Buren Alliance

(2)

The Rise of Mass-Based Politics and the Emergence of the Spoils System

(1)

The Interregnum: Parties and the Civil War

(3)

The Coming of the Machine

(1)

The Parties Speak: A Day in the Life of Party Boss George Washington Plunkitt

(2)

The Parties Speak: Lyndon B.Johnson and Richard J.Daley on Patronge

(1)

Parties ``American Style''

(1)

Further Reading

(1)

Notes

(2)

The Decline of Party Politics

(29)

``Clean It Up!'': The Progressive Movement

(14)

Enter the Progressives

(4)

The Parties Speak: Robert M.LaFollette, ``The Menace of the Machine'' (1897)

(4)

Why the Progressive Movement Was Successful

(3)

An End to Party Politics?

(2)

Franklin D. Roosevelt and the New Deal

(2)

The New Deal and Party Politics?

(1)

Political Parties and the Cold War

(2)

The Rise of Interest Groups

(2)

The Interest Group Explosion

(2)

The Rise of Candidate-Centered Politics

(5)

Party Activist versus Professional Consultant

(1)

Party Member versus Nonpartisan Candidate

(1)

The Parties Speak: Ed Rollins and the ``Campaign from Hell''

(1)

Party Affiliation versus Voting Choice

(1)

The Parties Speak: Louis LaPolla, ``The Pothole Mayor,'' A Case Study in Ambition

(1)

A Partyless Age?

(1)

Further Reading

(1)

Notes

(2)

Party Organizations in the Twenty-First Century

(24)

Organizational Adjustment and Growth

(7)

The Rebirth of the Republican National Committee

(2)

The Democratic National Committee Plays Catch-Up

(1)

New Technologies in the Information Age

(1)

Summary

(3)

The Emergence of Legislative Campaign Committees

(6)

The Hill Committees

(3)

The Parties Speak: Congressman David Price on the Role of Party in Campaigns

(1)

State Legislative Campaign Committees

(1)

The Parties Speak: Party Leaders Voice Concerns about Legislative Campaign Committees

(1)

Wither the Local Parties?

(4)

Evidence of Local Party Renewal

(3)

Evidence of Local Party Decline

102

(1)

Revitalists Versus Declinists

103

(2)

Conclusion

105

(1)

Further Reading

105

(1)

Notes

106

(2)

Nominating Presidents in the Information Age

108

(32)

What Kind of President?

108

(8)

From John Adams to Bill Clinton: The Problem of Presidential Selection

113

(1)

The Parties Speak: Alexander Hamilton on Choosing an American President

114

(2)

Hamilton's Family Versus Jefferson's Community

116

(4)

The Rise of Nominating Conventions

117

(3)

The Rise of Hamiltonian Nationalism

120

(15)

The McGovern-Fraser Commission

121

(1)

The Parties Speak: The New Republic's Reflections on the Assassination of Robert F.Kennedy and the Democratic Party of 1968

122

(6)

Are Primaries and Caucuses Representative?

128

(2)

Republicans Follow the McGovern-Fraser Lead

130

(2)

The Unintended Consequences of the McGovern-Fraser Reforms

132

(1)

The Mikulski and Winograd Commissions

133

(1)

Enter the Superdelegates

134

(1)

Looking to 2000

135

(2)

Further Reading

137

(1)

Notes

137

(3)

Party Brand Loyalty and the American Voter

140

(34)

The Importance of Party Identification

142

(5)

Measuring Party Identification

145

(2)

Is Party Identification Obsolete?

147

(1)

The Making of an Idea: Party Realignment

147

(10)

V. O. Key and Party Realignment

148

(1)

The Parties Speak: V. O. Key and the Theory of Party Realignment

149

(3)

Party Realignment: The Death of a Concept?

152

(2)

The Parties Speak: Everett C. Ladd, Like Waiting for Godot, the Uselessness of Party Realignment

154

(3)

Where are the Voters Going?

157

(3)

The End of the New Deal Coalition

157

(1)

Here Come the Ticket-Splitters

157

(3)

Party Coalitions in the Clinton Era

160

(9)

The Gender Gap

163

(3)

Divided Government

166

(3)

What's Left for Parties?

169

(1)

Further Reading

170

(1)

Notes

171

(3)

State and Local Parties: Mom-and-Pop Shops in the Information Age

174

(34)

State and Local Parties in the Information Age

175

(9)

Regulating State Parties

176

(1)

Party Structure

177

(3)

A Network of Allied Party Groups

180

(2)

The Parties Speak: David Rehr on the National Beer Wholesalers Association and the GOP

182

(2)

Who Belongs?

184

(8)

Primary Voters

184

(5)

Officials in the Party Organization

189

(2)

Activists

191

(1)

Summary

192

(1)

Local Political Culture

192

(3)

The Parties Speak: The ``Amateur Democrats''

194

(1)

What State and Local Parties Do

195

(6)

Manifest Party Functions

195

(2)

Nassau County Republicans: A Machine That Keeps on Ticking

197

(1)

The Kings County Republican Committee: Fighting the Nonpartisan Tide

198

(1)

The Loudoun County Democrats: An Information Age Revival Story

199

(1)

Dare County Democratic Committee: Hoping for a Policy Makeover

200

(1)

Summary

200

(1)

State and Local Parties, Computers, and the Internet

201

(2)

Desktop Tools

201

(1)

State Parties on the Net

201

(2)

Computers to the Rescue?

203

(1)

Appendix A: Republican State Committee Web Sites as of 1998

204

(1)

Appendix B: Democratic State Committee Web Sites as of 1998

205

(1)

Further Reading

206

(1)

Notes

206

(2)

Campaign Finance and Information Age Political Parties

208

(29)

A Brief Look at Money in Elections

210

(4)

Money as a Supplement to Party Activities (1790s to 1880s)

210

(1)

The Rise of Corporate Politics (1880s to 1950s)

211

(2)

Media-Centered Elections (1960s to the Present)

213

(1)

Efforts to Regulate the Flow of Money in Elections

214

(8)

Meaningful Reform: Watergate and Federal Reforms

216

(2)

A Challenge in the Courts: Buckley v. Valeo

218

(2)

The Rise of PACs

220

(2)

Creative Party Finances in the Information Age

222

(11)

Issue Advocacy

223

(1)

The Parties Speak: Ten Myths about Money in Politics

224

(3)

Independent Expenditures

227

(2)

Hard and Soft Money

229

(2)

Transfers to State Party Committees

231

(1)

Bundling

232

(1)

Funding Nominating Conventions

233

(1)

The Future of Party Finance in America

233

(2)

Further Reading

235

(1)

Notes

235

(2)

Elected Officials: The Reluctant Sales Force of the Party System

237

(27)

The Parties Speak: The 1994 House Republicans' Contract with American

238

(2)

The President as Party Leader

240

(1)

The Party in Congress

241

(6)

The Parties Speak: Toward a More Responsible Two-Party System

245

(2)

The Contract With America

247

(5)

The Parties Speak: The House Judiciary Committee on the Question of Impeachment

252

(1)

The Rise of the Public Speakership

252

(3)

Hamilton's Congress?

255

(6)

Further Reading

261

(1)

Notes

261

(3)

Third Parties and the Information Age: The Orphans of American Politics

264

(38)

The Third-Party Paradox

265

(15)

Institutional Barriers

267

(6)

American Political Culture

273

(3)

The Momentum of History

276

(2)

The Parties Speak: Benjamin C.Bubar, 1976 and 1980 Prohibition Party Presidential Nominee

278

(2)

Significant Third Parties in American History

280

(11)

The Anti-Mason Party

281

(1)

The Free-Soil Party

281

(1)

The American (Know-Nothing) Party

282

(1)

The Greenback and Populists (People's) Parties

283

(2)

The Progressives: 1912--1924

285

(1)

The Parties Speak: William Jennings Bryan's ``Cross of Gold'' Speech Presented to the Democratic National Convention, Chicago, Illinois, July 8, 1896

286

(1)

Henry Wallace and the Progressive Party of 1948

287

(2)

State's Rights Party (1948) and the American Independent Party (1968)

289

(1)

The Reform Party

290

(1)

Third Parties in the Information Age

291

(5)

An Explosion of Minor Parties

291

(2)

Changes in Voter Attitudes Toward Minor Parties

293

(1)

Minor Parties and the Internet

294

(2)

Jefferson, Hamilton, and the Future of Third Parties in America

296

(3)

The Parties Speak: Ventura Win Marks Dawn of New Era: Age of Digital Politics

297

(2)

Further Reading

299

(1)

Notes

300

(2)

Conclusion: Hamilton's Triumph and the Advent of the ``Base-Less'' Party System

302

(12)

The 1998 Election and the ``Base-Less'' Party System

307

(5)

Party Politics in the Next Millennium

312

(2)

Voter Trends

312

(1)

Organizational Developments

312

(1)

Legislative Politics

313

(1)

New Laws

313

(1)

Minor Parties

314

(1)

Notes

314

(5)

Index

319

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