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THE DECLINE OF AMERICAN POLITICAL PARTIES, 1952-94
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| By: |
Martin Wattenberg |
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Paperback |
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£30.95 |
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| ISBN 10: |
0674194357 |
| ISBN 13: |
9780674194359 |
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| Publisher: |
HARVARD UNIVERSITY PRESS |
| Pub. date: |
28 August, 1998 |
| Edition: |
New ed of 5 Revised ed |
| Pages: |
288 |
| Description: |
This work looks at the travails of political parties in the United States, by analyzing a congressional election. A new chapter which discusses the return of divided government, via the Republicans' takeover of Congress in 1994, is also included. |
| Synopsis: |
"The major theme of Chapter 12, new to this edition, is the missed opportunities for the parties in the 1996 elections. The year started with a highly visible confrontation over the budget that could have revitalized the party coalitions if the issues had been carried over to the election. However, the candidate-centered campaign of 1996 ultimately did little to resolve these issues or to reinvigorate partisanship in the electorate. In spite of the opportunities for getting new voters to the polls created by the Motor Voter Act, voter turnout in 1996 was the lowest since 1924. Turning out the vote is one of the most crucial functions of political parties, and their inability to mobalize more than half of the eligible electorate strongly indicates their future decline in importance to voters. Until citizens support the parties more by showing up to cast votes for their candidates, the decline of American political parties must be considered to be an ongoing phenomenon."--From the preface |
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51 tables |
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US |
| Imprint: |
Harvard University Press |
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