Why parties?: a second look

by Aldrich, John Herbert

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Title Statements

Full title :Why parties? : a second look / John H. Aldrich.

Edition Statements

Publication Date:2011.
Edition:[2nd ed.]

Publication Statements

Publisher(s):University of Chicago Press
Place of Publication:Chicago
Language:eng
Publication Date:2011.

The Physical Object

Description:1 online resource (xi, 387 pages : : illustrations).

Edition Identifiers

oclc:on1349301796
LC Classification:JK2261
Dewey Decimal:324.273

Political parties and democracy -- Politics and parties in America -- Why parties form -- Party formation in America, 1790-1860 -- Prologue -- Founding the first parties: institutions and social choice -- Jacksonian democracy: the mass party and collective action -- Whigs and republicans: institutions, issue agendas, and ambition -- The new political party in contemporary America -- Prologue -- Party activists and partisan cleavages in contemporary elections -- Political parties and governance -- The critical era of the 1960s -- Conclusions -- Political parties, historical dynamics, and democratic politics.