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| Preface | |
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| About the Authors | |
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| Introduction: Rethinking Political Parties in the Information Age | |
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| Notes | |
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| Political Parties in an American Setting | |
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| Political Parties: Institutions Americans Love to Hate | |
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| Praise from the Ivory Tower | |
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| Politics without Parties | |
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| The Parties Speak: Gejdenson versus White on the Importance of Political Parties | |
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| Three Important Party Distinctions | |
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| How Parties Differ from Other Organizations | |
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| The Components of American Political Parties | |
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| Does the Tripod Work in the Information Age? | |
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| What Do Political Parties Seek to Accomplish? | |
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| The Battle of the Titans: Hamilton Versus Jefferson | |
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| Like God, Parties are not Dead | |
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| Further Reading | |
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| Notes | |
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| The Ascendance of Party Politics | |
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| The Pre-Party Era | |
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| The Colonial Experience | |
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| Nascent Parties: Federalists Versus Republicans | |
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| Party Rule: 1824-1912 | |
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| Breakdown and Renewal: The Election of 1824 | |
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| The Jackson-Van Buren Alliance | |
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| The Rise of Mass-Based Politics and the Emergence of the Spoils System | |
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| The Interregnum: Parties and the Civil War | |
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| The Coming of the Machine | |
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| The Parties Speak: A Day in the Life of Party Boss George Washington Plunkitt | |
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| The Parties Speak: Lyndon B. Johnson and Richard J. Daley on Patronage | |
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| Parties "American Style" | |
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| Further Reading | |
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| Notes | |
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| The Decline of Party Politics | |
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| "Clean it Up!": The Progressive Movement | |
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| Enter the Progressives | |
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| The Parties Speak: Robert M. LaFollette, Sr., "The Menace of the Machine" (1897) | |
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| Why the Progressive Movement Was Successful | |
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| An End to Party Politics? | |
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| Franklin D. Roosevelt and the New Deal | |
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| The New Deal and Party Politics | |
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| Political Parties and the Cold War | |
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| The Rise of Interest Groups | |
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| The Interest Group Explosion | |
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| The Rise of Candidate-Centered Politics | |
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| Party Activist versus Professional Consultant | |
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| Party Member versus Nonpartisan Candidate | |
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| The Parties Speak: Ed Rollins and the "Campaign from Hell" | |
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| Party Affiliation versus Voting Choice | |
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| The Parties Speak: Louis LaPolla, "The Pothole Mayor," A Case Study in Ambition | |
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| A Partyless Age? | |
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| Further Reading | |
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| Notes | |
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| Party Organizations in the Twenty-First Century | |
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| Organizational Adjustment and Growth | |
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| The Rebirth of the Republican National Committee | |
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| The Democratic National Committee Plays Catch-Up | |
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| New Technologies in the Information Age | |
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| Summary | |
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| The Emergence of Legislative Campaign Committees | |
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| The Hill Committees | |
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| The Parties Speak: Congressman David Price on the Role of Party in Campaigns | |
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| State Legislative Campaign Committees | |
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| The Parties Speak: Party Leaders Voice Concerns about Legislative Campaign Committees | |
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| Wither the Local Parties? | |
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| Evidence of Local Party Renewal | |
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| Evidence of Local Party Decline | |
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| Revitalists Versus Declinists | |
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| Conclusion | |
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| Further Reading | |
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| Notes | |
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| Nominating Presidents in the Information Age | |
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| What Kind of President? | |
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| From John Adams to Bill Clinton: The Problem of Presidential Selection | |
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| The Parties Speak: Alexander Hamilton on Choosing an American President | |
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| Hamilton's Family Versus Jefferson's Community | |
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| The Rise of Nominating Conventions | |
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| The Rise of Hamiltonian Nationalism | |
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| The McGovern-Fraser Commission | |
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| The Parties Speak: The New Republic's Reflections on the Assassination of Robert F. Kennedy and the Democratic Party of 1968 | |
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| Are Primaries and Caucuses Representative? | |
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| Republicans Follow the McGovern-Fraser Lead | |
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| The Unintended Consequences of the McGovern-Fraser Reforms | |
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| The Mikulski and Winograd Commissions | |
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| Enter the Superdelegates | |
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| Looking to 2000 | |
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| Further Reading | |
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| Notes | |
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| Party Brand Loyalty and the American Voter | |
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| The Importance of Party Indentification | |
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| Measuring Party Identification | |
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| Is Party Identification Obsolete? | |
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| The Making of an Idea: Party Realignment | |
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| V. O. Key and Party Realignment | |
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| The Parties Speak: V. O. Key and the Theory of Party Realignment | |
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| Party Realignment: The Death of a Concept? | |
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| The Parties Speak: Everett C. Ladd, Like Waiting for Godot, the Uselessness of Party Realignment | |
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| Where are the Voters Going? | |
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| The End of the New Deal Coalition | |
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| Here Come the Ticket-Splitters | |
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| Party Coalitions in the Clinton Era | |
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| The Gender Gap | |
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| Divided Government | |
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| What's Left for Parties? | |
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| Further Reading | |
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| Notes | |
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| State and Local Parties: Mom-and-Pop Shops in the Information Age | |
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| State and Local Parties in the Information Age | |
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| Regulating State Parties | |
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| Party Structure | |
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| A Network of Allied Party Groups | |
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| The Parties Speak: David Rehr on the National Beer Wholesalers Association and the GOP | |
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| Who Belongs? | |
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| Primary Voters | |
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| Officials in the Party Organization | |
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| Activists | |
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| Summary | |
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| Local Political Culture | |
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| The Parties Speak: The "Amateur Democrats" | |
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| What State and Local Parties Do | |
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| Manifest Party Functions | |
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| Nassau County Republicans: A Machine That Keeps on Ticking | |
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| The Kings County Republican Committee: Fighting the Nonpartisan Tide | |
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| The Loudoun County Democrats: An Information Age Revival Story | |
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| Dare County Democratic Committee: Hoping for a Policy Makeover | |
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| Summary | |
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| State and Local Parties, Computers, and the Internet | |
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| Desktop Tools | |
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| State Parties on the Net | |
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| Computers to the Rescue? | |
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| Republican State Committee Web Sites as of 1998 | |
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| Democratic State Committee Web Sites as of 1998 | |
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| Further Reading | |
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| Notes | |
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| Campaign Finance and Information Age Political Parties | |
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| A Brief Look at Money in Elections | |
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| Money as a Supplement to Party Activities (1790s to 1880s) | |
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| The Rise of Corporate Politics (1880s to 1950s) | |
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| Media-Centered Elections (1960s to the Present) | |
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| Efforts to Regulate the Flow of Money in Elections | |
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| Meaningful Reform: Watergate and Federal Reforms | |
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| A Challenge in the Courts: Buckley v. Valeo | |
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| The Rise of PACs | |
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| Creative Party Finances in the Information Age | |
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| Issue Advocacy | |
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| The Parties Speak: Ten Myths about Money in Politics | |
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| Independent Expenditures | |
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| Hard and Soft Money | |
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| Transfers to State Party Committees | |
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| Bundling | |
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| Funding Nominating Conventions | |
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| The Future of Party Finance in America | |
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| Further Reading | |
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| Notes | |
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| Elected Officials: The Reluctant Sales Force of the Party System | |
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| The Parties Speak: The 1994 House Republicans' Contract with America | |
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| The President as Party Leader | |
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| The Party in Congress | |
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| The Parties Speak: Toward a More Responsible Two-Party System | |
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| The Contract with America | |
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| The Parties Speak: The House Judiciary Committee on the Question of Impeachment | |
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| The Rise of the Public Speakership | |
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| Hamilton's Congress? | |
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| Further Reading | |
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| Notes | |
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| Third Parties and the Information Age: The Orphans of American Politics | |
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| The Third-Party Paradox | |
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| Institutional Barriers | |
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| American Political Culture | |
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| The Momentum of History | |
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| The Parties Speak: Benjamin C. Bubar, 1976 and 1980 Prohibition Party Presidential Nominee | |
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| Significant Third parties in American History | |
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| The Anti-Mason Party | |
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| The Free-Soil Party | |
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| The American (Know-Nothing) Party | |
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| The Greenback and Populists (People's) Parties | |
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| The Progressives: 1912-1924 | |
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| The Parties Speak: William Jennings Bryan's "Cross of Gold" Speech Presented to the Democratic National Convention, Chicago, Illinois, July 8, 1896 | |
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| Henry Wallace and the Progressive Party of 1948 | |
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| State's Rights Party (1948) and the American Independent Party (1968) | |
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| The Reform Party | |
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| Third Parties in the Information Age | |
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| An Explosion of Minor Parties | |
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| Changes in Voter Attitudes toward Minor Parties | |
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| Minor Parties and the Internet | |
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| Jefferson, Hamilton, and the Future of Third Parties in America | |
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| The Parties Speak: Ventura Win Marks Dawn of New Era: Age of Digital Politics | |
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| Further Reading | |
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| Notes | |
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| Conclusion: Hamilton's Triumph and the Advent of the "Base-Less" Party System | |
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| The 1998 Election and the "Base-Less" Party System | |
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| Party Politics in the Next Millennium | |
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| Voter Trends | |
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| Organizational Developments | |
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| Legislative Politics | |
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| New Laws | |
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| Minor Parties | |
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| Notes | |
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| Index | |