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Tables, Figures, and Boxes | p. xi |
Preface | p. xv |
Political Parties and the Political System | p. 1 |
The Activities of Parties | p. 2 |
Recruitment and Selection of Leaders | p. 3 |
Representation and Integration of Group Interests | p. 4 |
Control and Direction of Government | p. 5 |
Parties as a "Dependent Variable" | p. 8 |
The Legal-Political System | p. 8 |
The Election System | p. 9 |
Political Culture and the Parties | p. 13 |
A Heterogeneous Nation | p. 15 |
Party Organization | p. 18 |
The National Committee | p. 18 |
The National Chair | p. 21 |
Congressional and Senatorial Campaign Committees | p. 22 |
State Committees | p. 23 |
Local Party Organization | p. 23 |
The Changing Parties: "Old Style" and "New Style" Politics | p. 25 |
American Parties and Competition and Competition | p. 33 |
Characteristics of Parties | p. 33 |
Dispersed Power | p. 34 |
The Power of Officeholders | p. 37 |
Coalitional in Nature | p. 38 |
Theoretically Moderate and Inclusive, but Less So in Practice | p. 42 |
Ideologically Heterogeneous in Theory, but Less So in Practice | p. 44 |
An Interest Group | p. 47 |
Party Competition | p. 49 |
Presidential Elections | p. 49 |
Congressional Elections | p. 54 |
State-Level Competition | p. 57 |
Party Competition and Issue Positions | p. 61 |
The Persistent Two-Party (Not Multiparty) System in America | p. 62 |
The Party Condition | p. 66 |
Political Parties and the Electoral Process: Nominations | p. 71 |
Party Nominating Methods: A Brief History | p. 71 |
Caucus | p. 71 |
Party Conventions | p. 72 |
Direct Primary | p. 72 |
Types of Primaries | p. 73 |
Closed Primary | p. 73 |
Open Primary | p. 74 |
Blanket Primary | p. 76 |
Nonpartisan Primary | p. 77 |
Runoff Primary | p. 77 |
An Assessment of the Direct Primary | p. 78 |
Presidential Selection | p. 80 |
The National Convention | p. 80 |
Selection of Delegates | p. 82 |
Rules of Delegate Selection | p. 84 |
Evaluating Presidential Primary and Caucus-Convention Systems | p. 88 |
Front-Loading and Its Effects | p. 90 |
Primaries and the End of Party Boss Influence | p. 95 |
The Convention Delegates | p. 96 |
The Politics of the Convention | p. 98 |
The Convention Committees | p. 98 |
Selecting the Presidential Ticket | p. 100 |
The Media, the Nominating Process, and the Parties | p. 102 |
Campaigns and Campaign Finance | p. 109 |
Campaign Organization | p. 110 |
Campaign Strategy | p. 111 |
Do Campaigns Matter? | p. 112 |
Issues and Campaigns | p. 116 |
Campaign Money | p. 119 |
The Regulation of Campaign Finance | p. 123 |
Soft Money | p. 127 |
Reforming Campaign Finance Reform | p. 130 |
Sources of Campaign Financing | p. 133 |
Presidential Contests | p. 133 |
Congressional Contests | p. 134 |
Evaluating the Campaign Finance System | p. 141 |
The Congressional Party and the Formation of Public Policy | p. 153 |
Congressional Elections | p. 154 |
Party Representation in Congress | p. 156 |
Do the Parties Differ on Public Policies? | p. 159 |
The Parties and Liberal-Labor Legislation | p. 161 |
The Sources of Stronger Parties in Government | p. 165 |
Party Organization in Congress | p. 169 |
Party Conferences | p. 169 |
The Speaker of the House | p. 170 |
The Floor Leaders | p. 172 |
The Whips | p. 177 |
The Policy Committees | p. 178 |
Informal Party Groups and-Specialized Congressional Caucuses | p. 179 |
Factors Influencing the Legislative Success of Party Leaders | p. 180 |
National Party Agencies and the Congressional Parties | p. 182 |
The President and the Congressional Party | p. 183 |
Limits on Presidential Influence | p. 183 |
The President and Legislative Leaders | p. 187 |
The Minority Party in Congress | p. 188 |
The Party in Congress: An Assessment | p. 188 |
Party Identification, Partisanship, and Elections | p. 199 |
The Origins of Party Identification | p. 200 |
The Effects of Party Identification | p. 202 |
The Distribution of Party Identification | p. 207 |
Party Identification and Voting Behavior | p. 210 |
Gender and Religion Gaps in Party Identification | p. 211 |
Evidence of the Growing Importance of Party | p. 214 |
Is the American Public Polarized? | p. 215 |
Voting and Participation; The Diminished Electorate | p. 220 |
Who Participates? | p. 221 |
Atrophy of the Electorate | p. 225 |
Causes of the Early Twentieth-Century Decline | p. 227 |
Causes of the Contemporary Decline (and Resurgence) in Turnout | p. 228 |
The Nation's Response to Declining Voter Turnout | p. 230 |
The American Party System: Problems and Perspectives | p. 239 |
The Doctrine of Responsible Parties | p. 239 |
National Party Organizations and Platforms | p. 241 |
Intraparty Democracy | p. 243 |
Congressional Party Organization | p. 245 |
Nominations and Elections | p. 249 |
Trends in American Politics | p. 249 |
Party Organizations Adjust to a Loss of Power | p. 250 |
Campaign Management: Image Makers and Technical Experts | p. 252 |
The Effort to Strengthen Party Organization | p. 255 |
An Era of Party and Governmental Reform | p. 257 |
The Escalation of Interest Group Activity | p. 259 |
The Nationalization of Politics | p. 261 |
The Polarization of Activists and Congress on the Issues | p. 262 |
The Decline and Resurgence of Partisanship | p. 266 |
Visceral Issues Drive Mass Party Differences | p. 268 |
Racial Polarization in Voting | p. 270 |
The Public's Declining Confidence in Political Institutions | p. 273 |
Prospects for the Parties | p. 276 |
Index | p. 287 |
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