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Suggestions for Further Reading Works on Third Parties in General Ali, Omar H. In the Balance of Power: Independent Black Politics and Third-Party Movements in the United States. Athens: Ohio University Press, 2008. Amato, Theresa A. Grand Illusion: The Myth of Voter Choice in a Two-Party Tyranny. New York: New Press, 2009. Bennett, James D. Not Invited to the Party: How the Demopublicans Have Rigged the System and Left Independents Out in the Cold. New York: Springer, 2009. Bibby, John F., and L. Sandy Maisel. Two Parties—or More? The American Party System. 2nd ed. Boulder, Colo.: Westview, 2003. Black, Gordon S., and Benjamin D. Black. The Politics of American Discontent: How a New Party Can Make Democracy Work Again. New York: Wiley, 1994. Caiazzo, Thomas A., and Robert L. Marsh. Third-Party Presidential Politics in America: The Institutional Obstacles Such Candidates Face. Lewiston, N.Y.: Edwin Mellen Press, 2011. Cox, Vicki. The History of Third Parties. New York: Chelsea House, 2007 (juvenile literature ). Disch, Lisa J. The Tyranny of the Two-Party System. New York: Columbia University Press, 2002. Gerring, John.“Minor Parties in Plurality Electoral Systems.”Party Politics 11, no. 1 (2005): 79–107. Gilbert, Christopher P., et. al. Religious Institutions and Minor Parties in the United States. Westport, Conn.: Praeger/Greenwood, 1999. Green, Donald J. Third Party Matters: Politics, Presidents, and Third Parties in American History. Santa Barbara, Calif.: Praeger, 2010. Hazlett, Joseph M. The Libertarian Party and Other Minor Political Parties in the United States. Jefferson City, N.C.: McFarland and Co., 1992. Herrnson, Paul S., and John Clifford Green, eds. Multiparty Politics in America. 2nd ed. Lanham, Md.: Rowman and Littlefield, 2002. Hesseltine, William B. Third-Party Movements in the United States. Princeton, N.J.: Van Nostrand, 1962. Hill, Steven. Fixing Elections: The Failure of America’s Winner Take All Politics. New York: Routledge, 2002. Hirano, Shigeo, and James M. Snyder Jr.“The Decline of Third-Party Voting in the United States.” Journal of Politics 69, no. 1 (2007): 1–16. 272 Suggestions for Further Reading Klobuchar, Lisa. Third Parties: Influential Political Alternatives. Minneapolis: Compass Point Books, 2008. Lowi, Theodore J., and Joseph Romance. A Republic of Parties? Debating the Two-Party System . Lanham, Md.: Rowman and Littlefield, 1998. Mazmanian, Daniel A. Third Parties in Presidential Elections. Washington, D.C.: Brookings Institution, 1974. Ness, Immanuel, and James Ciment, eds. The Encyclopedia of Third Parties in America. 3 vols. Armonk, N.Y.: Sharpe Reference, 2000. Peterson, Geoff, and J. Mark Wrighton. “Expressions of Distrust: Third-Party Voting and Cynicism in Government.” Political Behavior 20, no. 1 (1998): 17–34. Rapoport, Ronald B., and Walter J. Stone. Three’s a Crowd: The Dynamic of Third Parties, Ross Perot, and Republican Resurgence. Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 2005. Richardson, Darcy G. Others. Vol. 1, Third Parties from the Nation’s Founding to the Rise and Fall of the Greenback-Labor Party (2004); vol. 2, Third Parties during the Populist Period (2007); vol. 3, Third Parties from Teddy Roosevelt’s Bull Moose Party to the Decline of Socialism in America (2007); vol. 4, “Fighting Bob” LaFollete and the Progressive Movement (2008); vol. 5, Third Parties during the Great Depression (2010). New York: iUniverse, 2004–. Rosenstone, Steven J., Roy L. Behr, and Edward H. Lazarus. Third Parties in America: Citizen Response to Major Party Failure. 2nd ed. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1996. Schoen, Douglas E. Declaring Independence: The Beginning of the End of the Two-Party System . New York: Random House, 2008. Shock, David R.“Securing a Line on the Ballot: Measuring and Explaining the Restrictiveness of Ballot Access Laws for Non-Major Party Candidates in the United States.”Social Science Journal 45, no. 1 (2008): 45–60. Sifry, Micah L. Spoiling for a Fight: Third-Party Politics in America. New York: Routledge, 2002. Smallwood, Frank. The Other Candidates: Third Parties in Presidential Elections. Hanover, N.H.: University Press of New England, 1983. Stratmann, Thomas. “Ballot Access Restrictions and Candidate Entry in Elections.” European Journal of Political Economy 21, no. 1 (2005): 59–71. “Third Parties in American Politics: Rich History, Many Roles.” U.S. State Department Interview with J. David Gillespie by Thomas Mann, August 30, 2004, available online at http://www.america.gov/st/washfile-English/2004/August/20040830165442frlle hctim0.307461.html (accessed August 16, 2011). Winger, Richard. “How Many Parties Ought to Be On the Ballot? An Analysis of Nader v. Keith.” Election Law Journal 5, no. 2 (2006): 170...

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