In this Book
- Parties in Transition
- Book
- 1986
- Published by: Russell Sage Foundation
summary
Every four years, the drama of presidential selection inspires a reassessment of our political parties. Central to this assessment are the delegates who gather at Democratic and Republican national conventions. Parties in Transition presents a richly modulated body of data of the changing attitudes and behaviors of these delegates—their ideologies and loyalties, their recruitment into presidential politics, their persistence in or disengagement from it. Covering three recent sets of conventions and involving over five thousand delegates, this comprehensive study makes an essential contribution to our understanding of American party politics. "Richer and more authoritative than most of the best works in the field." —Election Politics "A most important study of change in the American political scene....Richly deserves to be read." —John H. Kessel, Ohio State University "[A] shrewd and sophisticated analysis....Both scholars and practitioners should read this book and ponder it." —Austin Ranney, University of California, Berkeley
Table of Contents
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- List of Tables
- pp. xiii-xviii
- List of Figures
- pp. xix-xx
- Part I - The Structure and Mechanics of Elite Circulation and Candidate Preference
- 3. Candidate Preferences
- pp. 39-64
- Part II - Changes Within the Parties
- Part III - Systemic Consequences
- 8. The Dynamics of Interparty Conflict
- pp. 161-188
- 11. A Summing Up
- pp. 238-254
- Appendices
- p. 255
- Appendix A - Delegate Attributes
- pp. 256-259
- Appendix B - The 1981 Survey
- pp. 260-264
- Appendix F - Index Construction
- pp. 272-276
Additional Information
ISBN
9781610443975
Related ISBN(s)
9780871546029
MARC Record
OCLC
907642607
Pages
320
Launched on MUSE
2016-01-01
Language
English
Open Access
No
Copyright
1986