| Description |
1 online resource (256 pages) |
| Note |
Description based upon print version of record. |
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Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Contents |
Intro -- Contents -- Chapter 1 Making Parties into Machines -- The Tale of Eric Cantor -- What Is Democracy? -- The Direct Primary in America -- The Accidental Nature of Parties -- Parties and Democracy -- Chapter 2 Parties Ascendant -- Creating a Political Party without a Model -- Contra Parties: A Brief and Futile Attempt -- Parties at the Beginning -- The First Party Organizations -- The Populist Turn -- State and Local Party Development -- Rise of the Machines -- Machines Overpower Democracy -- Change Comes to the Machine -- Chapter 3 What the Progressives Were For |
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The World the Progressives Faced -- Political Parties and Corruption -- The Progressive Conception of Politics -- Progressive Disruption -- Progressives' Democratic Mistakes -- Chapter 4 Why the Machines Were Targeted -- The Progressive Zeal for a Better Society -- The Democratic Ideal -- Progressives, Community, and the Parties -- The March to Direct Primaries -- The Pace of Politics and the Role of Compromise -- White Primaries: The South's Racist Experiment -- What the Early Primaries Were Like -- Conclusion -- Chapter 5 The Early Primary Era |
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Democracy, Conventions and the Chairman's Problem -- Critics of the Conventions -- Conventions and Primaries-The Hybrid System -- A Settled Peace-Primaries and Conventions -- Primaries and Conventions: Balancing Ideology and Winning -- Conclusion: A Working System -- Chapter 6 The Pivotal 1968 Democratic National Convention -- Democrats and Democracy in Turmoil -- Reforming the Democratic Party (and Everything Else): The McGovern-Fraser Commission -- Chapter 7 What Direct Primaries Have Done -- Disruption and Decline -- Taking the Parties Out -- Effects on the Parties -- The "Meaningless" Party |
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The Party in Government Retreats -- Weakening the Party Organization -- Electoral Partisanship Morphs and Declines -- The Twentieth-Century Decline of Parties -- Chapter 8 The Problem with Primaries -- The Joe Lieberman Conundrum -- Primaries and Polarization -- A Polarized Public -- Negative Partisanship -- Open Versus Closed Primaries -- Turnout -- Legislative Polarization -- Mediated Polarization -- Campaign Spending -- A New Model of Campaign-Driven Polarization -- Chapter 9 Conclusion -- The Purposes of the Nomination Process -- 1. A Good Candidate -- 2. Democratic Legitimacy |
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3. A Good President -- 4. Peer Review -- What Is to Be Done? -- 1. Strengthening the Parties -- 2. Helping Voters -- 3. Ending the Party Duopoly -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index |
| Summary |
Argues that Progressive Era reforms had the counterintuitive effect of weakening political parties and their role in representative government. |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
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Progressivism (United States politics) -- History.
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Representative government and representation -- United States -- History.
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Primaries -- United States -- History.
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Political parties -- United States -- History.
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Political parties |
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Primaries |
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Progressivism (United States politics) |
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Representative government and representation |
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United States https://id.oclc.org/worldcat/entity/E39PBJtxgQXMWqmjMjjwXRHgrq |
| Genre/Form |
History
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| Added Author |
Romance, Joseph, 1966- author. https://id.oclc.org/worldcat/entity/E39PCjBvWtH9GTQxYYqkPRTd33
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Rackaway, Chapman Primary Elections and American Politics Québec : State University of New York Press,c2022 9781438490588 |
| ISBN |
9781438490595 |
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1438490593 |
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1438490577 |
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9781438490571 |
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