PARTISAN APPROACHES TO POSTWAR AMERICAN POLITICS

by Byron E. Shafer

• ISBN13: 9781566430647
• ISBN10: 156643064X
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 1998-01-01
• Publisher: Cq Pr

Summary

Parties have often been the central intermediaries of politics, gathering and presenting the main actors and the main programs, while linking individual citizens with governmental institutions, social forces with public policy. As a result, a focus on partisanship brings many of the specific contestants, policies, conflicts, and coalitions&BAD:-the guts of politics as it is normally understood&BAD:-back into view. Byron E. Shafer heads a distinguished team of expert commentators who focus, in parallel chapters, on the dramatic dimensions of political change over the years 1946-1996.

Table of Contents

Tables and Figures	vii	(3)
Acknowledgments	x
Introduction	1	(4)
1. Partisan Officeholders, 1946-1996	5	(36)
Randall W. Strahan
Partisan Politics, 1946-52	7	(10)
Two Partisan Twists on the Way to the Late Twentieth Century	17	(4)
Late-Century Partisan Politics, 1990-96	21	(13)
Conclusion: Partisan Officeholders and Political Change	34	(7)
2. Party Factionalism, 1946-1996	41	(34)
Nicol C. Rae
A Period of Transition I: 1946-52	43	(13)
A Period of Transition II: 1990-96	56	(14)
Conclusion: Party Factions in a New Millennium	70	(5)
3. Partisan Elites, 1946-1996	75	(67)
Byron E. Shafer
The Circulation of Elites	76	(2)
The Immediate Postwar Years	78	(23)
The Modern Period	101	(26)
Conclusion: The Circulation of Elites Revisited	127	(15)
4. Party Organizations, 1946-1996	142	(44)
John F. Bibby
Party Organizations in the Immediate Post-World War II Era	144	(7)
The Evolution of a Candidate-Centered Politics	151	(9)
Party Organizations in the 1990s	160	(14)
Conclusions	174	(12)
5. Mass Partisanship, 1946-1996	186	(34)
William G. Mayer
The Nature of Mass Partisanship	187	(4)
Mass Partisanship in the 1950s: An Overview	191	(2)
Five Measures of Mass Partisanship	193	(18)
Summing Up: Mass Partisanship in the 1990s	211	(9)
6. Partisan Rules, 1946-1996	220	(51)
Harold F. Bass Jr.
Setting the Stage: Preliminary Developments	223	(6)
Ballot-Related Practices at Midcentury	229	(7)
The Situation at Century's End	236	(12)
Elaborations on the Transformation: Why, How, and So What?	248	(12)
Conclusions	260	(11)
Index	271	(6)
About the Authors	277