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| Foreword | |
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| Preface | |
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| Parties and Party Systems | |
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| What Are Political Parties? | |
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| A Three-Part Definition of Parties | |
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| What Parties Do | |
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| The Effects of Party Activity | |
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| How Do Parties Differ from Other Political Groups? | |
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| How the American Parties Developed | |
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| The Emergence of a National Two-Party System | |
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| What Do the Parties Stand For? | |
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| Parties Are Shaped by Their Environment | |
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| The American Two-Party System | |
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| The National Party System | |
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| The 50 State Party Systems | |
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| What Causes a Two-Party System? | |
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| Exceptions to the Two-Party Pattern | |
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| Will the Two-Party System Continue? | |
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| The Political Party as an Organization | |
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| The State and Local Party Organizations | |
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| What Is a "Strong" Party? | |
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| The Legal Environment of the Parties | |
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| Levels of Party Organization | |
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| The Legendary Party Machines | |
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| Local Party Organizations Declined and Then Rebuilt | |
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| The State Parties: Newfound Prosperity | |
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| Summing Up: How the State and Local Party Organizations Have Transformed | |
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| The Parties' National Organizations | |
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| The National Parties | |
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| Other National Party Groups | |
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| Two Paths to Power | |
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| What Is the Impact of These Stronger National Parties? | |
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| The Limits of Party Organization | |
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| Party Activists | |
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| What Draws People into Party Activity? | |
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| How Do Parties Recruit Activists? | |
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| What Kinds of People Become Party Activists? | |
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| Party Activists and Democracy | |
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| The Political Party in the Electorate | |
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| Party Identification | |
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| How People Develop Party Identifications | |
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| Patterns of Partisanship Over Time | |
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| Party Identification and Political Views | |
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| Party Identification and Voting | |
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| Party Identification and Political Activity | |
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| Party Identification and Attitudes Toward the Parties | |
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| The Myth of the Independent | |
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| Change in the Impact of Party ID | |
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| Party Coalitions and Party Change | |
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| The American Party Systems | |
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| The Social Bases of Party Coalitions | |
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| Issues Are Central to the Parties' Coalitions | |
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| The Development of the Sixth Party System | |
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| Who Votes-and Why It Matters | |
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| The Low Turnout in American Elections | |
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| The Expanding Right to Vote | |
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| Legal Barriers to Voting | |
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| The Special Case of Voting Rights for African Americans | |
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| Political Influences on Turnout | |
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| Turnout: Individual Differences | |
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| Why Isn't Voter Turnout Even Higher? | |
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| Why Do These Changes in Turnout Matter? | |
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| The Challenge to the Parties | |
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| Parties, Nominations, and Elections | |
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| How Parties Choose Candidates | |
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| How the Nomination Process Evolved | |
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| The Current Mix of Primaries and Conventions | |
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| Types of Primaries | |
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| Why Does the Type of Primary Matter? | |
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| How Candidates Qualify | |
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| What Parties Don't Like About Primaries | |
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| The Party Organization Fights Back | |
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| Candidates and Voters in the Primaries | |
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| The Impact of the Direct Primary | |
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| Choosing the Presidential Nominees | |
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| The Move to Presidential Primaries | |
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| The Race to Win Delegate Votes | |
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| Voters' Choices in Presidential Nominations | |
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| On to the National Conventions | |
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| Who Are the Delegates? | |
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| How Media Cover Conventions | |
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| Do Conventions Still Have a Purpose? | |
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| Should We Reform the Reforms? | |
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| The General Election | |
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| Elections: The Rules Affect the Results | |
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| Campaign Strategy | |
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| How Campaigning Has Changed | |
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| Do Campaigns Make a Difference? | |
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| Candidate-Centered or Party-Centered Campaigns? | |
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| Financing the Campaigns | |
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| How Much Money Is Spent on Campaigns? | |
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| What Is the Impact of Campaign Spending? | |
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| Where Does the Money Come From? | |
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| Money in State and Local Campaigns | |
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| Reform of the Campaign Finance Rules | |
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| The Loopholes That Ate the Reforms | |
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| What Did the 1970s Reforms Accomplish? | |
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| Money in American Politics | |
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| The Party in Government | |
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| Parties in Congress and State Legislatures | |
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| How the Parties Are Organized in Congress | |
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| Methods of Party Influence | |
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| Party Influence on Legislative Voting | |
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| Comparing Party Power in Congress and State Legislatures | |
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| The Power of Legislative Parties | |
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| The Party in the Executive and the Courts | |
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| President and Governor as Party Leaders | |
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| Party Leadership and Legislative Relations | |
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| Party Influence in Executive Agencies | |
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| Traces of Party in the Courts | |
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| The Party Within the Executive and the Judge | |
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| The Semi-Responsible Parties | |
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| The Case for Responsible Party Government | |
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| The Case Against Party Government | |
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| Party Cohesion and Ideology | |
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| Ideology and the American Voter | |
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| When Is Party Government Most Likely? | |
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| Party Government and Popular Control | |
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| The Place of Parties in American Politics | |
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| Parties and Their Environment | |
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| Party Decline in the 1960s and 1970s | |
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| Party Renewal | |
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| The Future of Party Politics in America | |
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| Conclusion: The Parties' Prospects | |
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| Party Politics on the Internet | |
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| Appendix | |
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| Endnotes | |
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| Index | |