Why Parties? A Second Look

Name: Why Parties? A Second Look
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ISBN: 9780226012742

ISBN-10: 0226012743

ISBN-13: 9780226012742

Edition: 2011

Authors: John H. Aldrich

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Since its first appearance fifteen years ago,Why Parties?has become essential reading for anyone wishing to understand the nature of American political parties. In the interim, the party system has undergone some radical changes. In this landmark book, now rewritten for the new millennium, John H. Aldrich goes beyond the clamor of arguments over whether American political parties are in resurgence or decline and undertakes a wholesale reexamination of the foundations of the American party system. Surveying critical episodes in the development of American political partiesfrom their formation in the 1790s to the Civil WarAldrich shows how they serve to combat three fundamental problems of…

Book details

List price: $31.00
Copyright year: 2011
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Publication date: 5/1/2011
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 400
Size: 6.00" wide x 9.00" long x 1.00" tall
Weight: 1.430
Language: English

Jean-Michel Bismut is professor of mathematics at the Universitï¿½ Paris-Sud, Orsay.



Acknowledgments



Political Parties and Democracy



Politics and Parties in America



Why Parries Form



Party Formation in America, 1790-1860


Prologue



Founding the First Parties: Institutions and Social Choice



A Jacksonian Democracy: The Mass Party and Collective Action



Whigs and Republicans: Institutions, Issue Agendas, and Ambition



The New Political Party in Contemporary America


Prologue



Party Activists and Partisan Cleavages



Political Parties and Governance



The Critical Era of the 1960s



Conclusions



Political Parties, Historical Dynamics, and Democratic Politics


Notes


References


Index