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| Tables, Figures, and Boxes | |
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| Preface | |
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| Political Parties and the Political System | |
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| The Activities of Parties | |
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| Recruitment and Selection of Leaders | |
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| Representation and Integration of Group Interests | |
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| Control and Direction of Government | |
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| Parties as a "Dependent Variable" | |
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| The Legal-Political System | |
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| The Election System | |
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| Political Culture and the Parties | |
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| A Heterogeneous Nation | |
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| Party Organization | |
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| The National Committee | |
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| The National Chair | |
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| Congressional and Senatorial Campaign Committees | |
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| State Committees | |
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| Local Party Organization | |
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| The Changing Parties: "Old Style" and "New Style" Politics | |
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| American Parties and Competition and Competition | |
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| Characteristics of Parties | |
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| Dispersed Power | |
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| The Power of Officeholders | |
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| Coalitional in Nature | |
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| Theoretically Moderate and Inclusive, but Less So in Practice | |
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| Ideologically Heterogeneous in Theory, but Less So in Practice | |
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| An Interest Group | |
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| Party Competition | |
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| Presidential Elections | |
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| Congressional Elections | |
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| State-Level Competition | |
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| Party Competition and Issue Positions | |
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| The Persistent Two-Party (Not Multiparty) System in America | |
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| The Party Condition | |
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| Political Parties and the Electoral Process: Nominations | |
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| Party Nominating Methods: A Brief History | |
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| Caucus | |
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| Party Conventions | |
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| Direct Primary | |
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| Types of Primaries | |
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| Closed Primary | |
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| Open Primary | |
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| Blanket Primary | |
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| Nonpartisan Primary | |
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| Runoff Primary | |
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| An Assessment of the Direct Primary | |
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| Presidential Selection | |
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| The National Convention | |
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| Selection of Delegates | |
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| Rules of Delegate Selection | |
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| Evaluating Presidential Primary and Caucus-Convention Systems | |
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| Front-Loading and Its Effects | |
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| Primaries and the End of Party Boss Influence | |
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| The Convention Delegates | |
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| The Politics of the Convention | |
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| The Convention Committees | |
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| Selecting the Presidential Ticket | |
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| The Media, the Nominating Process, and the Parties | |
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| Campaigns and Campaign Finance | |
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| Campaign Organization | |
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| Campaign Strategy | |
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| Do Campaigns Matter? | |
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| Issues and Campaigns | |
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| Campaign Money | |
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| The Regulation of Campaign Finance | |
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| Soft Money | |
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| Reforming Campaign Finance Reform | |
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| Sources of Campaign Financing | |
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| Presidential Contests | |
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| Congressional Contests | |
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| Evaluating the Campaign Finance System | |
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| The Congressional Party and the Formation of Public Policy | |
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| Congressional Elections | |
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| Party Representation in Congress | |
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| Do the Parties Differ on Public Policies? | |
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| The Parties and Liberal-Labor Legislation | |
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| The Sources of Stronger Parties in Government | |
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| Party Organization in Congress | |
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| Party Conferences | |
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| The Speaker of the House | |
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| The Floor Leaders | |
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| The Whips | |
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| The Policy Committees | |
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| Informal Party Groups and-Specialized Congressional Caucuses | |
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| Factors Influencing the Legislative Success of Party Leaders | |
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| National Party Agencies and the Congressional Parties | |
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| The President and the Congressional Party | |
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| Limits on Presidential Influence | |
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| The President and Legislative Leaders | |
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| The Minority Party in Congress | |
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| The Party in Congress: An Assessment | |
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| Party Identification, Partisanship, and Elections | |
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| The Origins of Party Identification | |
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| The Effects of Party Identification | |
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| The Distribution of Party Identification | |
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| Party Identification and Voting Behavior | |
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| Gender and Religion Gaps in Party Identification | |
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| Evidence of the Growing Importance of Party | |
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| Is the American Public Polarized? | |
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| Voting and Participation; The Diminished Electorate | |
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| Who Participates? | |
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| Atrophy of the Electorate | |
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| Causes of the Early Twentieth-Century Decline | |
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| Causes of the Contemporary Decline (and Resurgence) in Turnout | |
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| The Nation's Response to Declining Voter Turnout | |
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| The American Party System: Problems and Perspectives | |
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| The Doctrine of Responsible Parties | |
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| National Party Organizations and Platforms | |
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| Intraparty Democracy | |
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| Congressional Party Organization | |
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| Nominations and Elections | |
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| Trends in American Politics | |
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| Party Organizations Adjust to a Loss of Power | |
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| Campaign Management: Image Makers and Technical Experts | |
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| The Effort to Strengthen Party Organization | |
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| An Era of Party and Governmental Reform | |
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| The Escalation of Interest Group Activity | |
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| The Nationalization of Politics | |
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| The Polarization of Activists and Congress on the Issues | |
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| The Decline and Resurgence of Partisanship | |
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| Visceral Issues Drive Mass Party Differences | |
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| Racial Polarization in Voting | |
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| The Public's Declining Confidence in Political Institutions | |
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| Prospects for the Parties | |
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| Index | |