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"Demonstrating the emergence of a distinct "campaign-centered" electoral order, David Menefee-Libey discusses the dramatic transformation of American national campaigns and electoral politics in recent years and the parties' adaptive responses to this realignment. The Triumph of Campaign-Centered Politics highlights the electoral dimensions of representative democracy - representation, deliberation, and choice - and it illuminates the challenges Americans...
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What determines the interests, ideologies, and alliances that make up political parties? In its entire history, the United States has had only a handful of party transformations. First to the Party concludes that groups like unions and churches, not voters or politicians, are the most consistent influences on party transformation.
The United States has scores of potential issues and ideologies but only two major political parties. How parties respond...
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In his first term in office, Franklin Roosevelt helped pull the nation out of the Great Depression. In 1936, he was enthusiastically reelected. But then the political winds shifted. Not only did the Supreme Court block some of his experiments, but he also faced serious conservative opposition within his own party. Historian Susan Dunn tells the dramatic story of FDR's unprecedented battle to drive his foes out of his party by backing liberal challengers...
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Although labor unions have faced a decline in membership in recent decades, they have not necessarily lost their political clout. This book illuminates the inner dynamics of labor's relationship to the American political system over the past generation. It examines organized labor from the Johnson administration to the end of Clinton's first term, showing that labor's alliance with the Democratic Party has endured despite changes in the economy and...
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"JFK, LBJ, and the Democratic Party is a detailed, comprehensive, and provocative account of presidential party leadership in the turbulent 1960s. Using many primary sources, including resources from presidential libraries, state and national archival material, public opinion polls, and numerous interviews, Sean J. Savage reveals for the first time the influence of Presidents John F. Kennedy and Lyndon B. Johnson on the chairmanship, operations, structure,...
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The Workfare State is a fascinating and essential new account of the rise of work as a condition for social assistance in the United States. Work became a requirement for social assistance, reinforcing the low-wage economy of the South and in turn the political bases of the lawmakers responsible for the change. That the same forces that shaped welfare legislation in the 1930s continued to do so decades later, and for similar economic and racial reasons,...
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Bella Abzug's promotion of women's and gay rights, universal childcare, green energy, and more provoked fierce opposition from Republicans and a split within her own party. The story of this notorious force in the Democrats' "New Politics" insurgency is a biography for our times. Before Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, Elizabeth Warren, or Hillary Clinton, there was New York's Bella Abzug. With a fiery rhetorical style forged in the 1960s antiwar movement,...
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