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100 1 $aKeefe, William J.
245 10 $aParties, politics, and public policy in America /$cWilliam J. Keefe, Marc J. Hetherington.
250 $a9th ed.
260 $aWashington, D.C. :$bCQ Press,$cc2003.
300 $axviii, 270 p. :$bill. ;$c23 cm.
504 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index.
505 0 $aPolitical Parties and the Political System -- The Activities of Parties -- Recruitment and Selection of Leaders -- Representation and Integration of Group Interests -- Control and Direction of Government -- Parties as a "Dependent Variable" -- The Legal-Political System -- The Election System -- The Political Culture and the Parties -- A Heterogeneous Nation -- Party Organization -- The National Committee -- The National Chair -- Congressional and Senatorial Campaign Committees -- State Committees -- Local Party Organization -- The Changing Parties: "Old Style" and "New Style" Politics -- American Parties: Characteristics and Competition -- Characteristics of Parties -- Dispersed Power -- The Power of Officeholders -- Coalitional in Nature -- Moderate and Inclusive -- Ideologically Heterogeneous -- An Interest Group -- Party Competition -- Presidential Elections -- Congressional Elections -- State-Level Competition -- Party Competition and Issue Positions -- The Persistent Two-Party System in America -- The Party Condition -- Political Parties and the Electoral Process: Nominations -- Nominating Methods -- Caucus -- Party Conventions -- Direct Primary -- Types of Primaries -- Closed Primary -- Open Primary -- Blanket Primary -- Nonpartisan Primary -- Runoff Primary -- An Assessment of the Direct Primary -- Presidential Selection -- The National Convention -- Selection of Delegates -- Rules of Delegate Selection -- Evaluating Presidential Primary and Caucus-Convention Systems -- Front Loading -- Primaries and the End of Party-Boss Influence -- The Convention Delegates -- The Politics of the Convention -- The Convention Committees -- Selecting the Presidential Ticket -- The Media, the Presidential Nominating Process, and the Parties -- Campaigns and Campaign Finance -- Campaign Organization -- Campaign Strategy -- Do Campaigns Matter? -- Issues and Campaigns -- Campaign Money -- The Regulation of Campaign Finance -- Soft Money -- Campaign Finance Reform: McCain-Feingold -- Sources of Campaign Financing under FECA -- Evaluating the Campaign Finance System -- The Congressional Party and the Formation of Public Policy -- Congressional Elections -- Party Representation in Congress -- Party Organization in Congress -- Party Conferences -- The Speaker of the House -- The Floor Leaders -- The Whips -- The Policy Committees -- Informal Party Groups and Specialized Congressional Caucuses -- Factors Influencing the Success of Party Leaders -- National Party Agencies and the Congressional Parties -- Do the Parties Differ on Public Policies? -- The Parties and Liberal-Labor Legislation -- Weak Party Leadership but Strong Parties in Government -- The President and the Congressional Party -- Limits on Presidential Influence -- The President and Legislative Leaders -- The Role of the Minority Party in Congress -- The Party in Congress: Unfavorable Odds -- Party Identification, Partisanship, and Elections -- The Origins of Party Identification -- The Effects of Party Identification -- The Distribution of Party Identification -- Party Identification and Voting Behavior -- Emerging Differences in Party Identification: Gender and Religion -- Evidence of the Growing Importance of Party -- Turnout: The Diminished Electorate -- Who Participates? -- Atrophy of the Electorate -- What Caused the Turnout Decline? -- Causes of the Early Twentieth-Century Decline -- Causes of the Contemporary Decline -- The Nation's Response to Declining Voter Turnout -- The American Party System: Problems and Perspectives -- The Doctrine of Responsible Parties -- National Party Organization -- Party Platforms -- Congressional Party Organization -- Intraparty Democracy -- Nominations and Elections -- The Promise of Responsible Parties -- Responsible Parties and Party Reform -- Intraparty Democracy -- Strengthening the Congressional Parties -- Organization, Platforms, Nominations, and Elections -- Trends in American Politics -- The Loss of Power by Electoral Party Organizations and Their Adjustments -- The Growing Importance of Professional Campaign Management Firms and the Media in Politics -- A Growing Effort to Professionalize and Strengthen Party Organization -- An Era of Party and Governmental Reform -- The Escalation of Interest-Group Activity -- The Increasing Nationalization of Politics -- A Continuation of Party Competition Based on Meaningful Policy Differences between the Parties -- The Decline of Partisanship and Its Resurgence -- The Weakening of Group Attachments to the Democratic Party in Presidential Elections -- The Growth of Racial Polarization in Voting -- The Public's Declining Confidence in Political Institutions -- The Prospects.
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