Party Organization and Activism in the American South.

These new essays map the ways political parties remain vital components in the American political system, especially in the eleven states in the South. As Tocqueville noted more than 100 years ago, ""No countries need associations more ... than those with a democratic social state."&q...

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Main Author: Steed, Robert P.
Other Authors: Clark, John A., Bowman, Lewis, Hadley, Charles D.
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Tuscaloosa : University of Alabama Press, 2013.
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505 0 |a Contents; List of Illustrations; Acknowledgments; Introduction: Local Political Parties and Party Scholarship; Part One: Individuals in Organizations; 1. Recruiting Activists; 2. Activists' Incentives; 3. Purist versus Pragmatic Orientations; 4. Ambition and Local Party Activists; Part Two: Activities in Organizations; 5. Parties, Ideology, and Issues: The Structuring of Political Conflict; 6. Party Maintenance Activities; 7. Campaign Activities; 8. Communication Patterns; Part Three: Party and the Environment; 9. Factions in the Politics of the New South; 10. Mass/Elite Linkage. 
505 8 |a 11. Strength of Party Attachment12. Party Activists as Agents of Change: Women, Blacks, and Political Parties in the South; 13. Summing Up: Organization and Activism at the Grassroots Level in the 1990s; Notes; Bibliography; Contributors; Index. 
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