First to the Party : : The Group Origins of Political Transformation /

First to the Party : : The Group Origins of Political Transformation / / Christopher Baylor.

The United States has scores of potential issues and ideologies but only two major political parties. How parties respond to competing demands for their attention is therefore central to American democracy. First to the Party argues that organized groups set party agendas by invading party nominatio...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter University of Pennsylvania Press Complete eBook-Package 2017
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Baylor, Christopher,
Place / Publishing House:Philadelphia : : University of Pennsylvania Press, , [2017]
©2018
Year of Publication:2017
Language:English
Series:American Governance: Politics, Policy, and Public Law
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Physical Description:1 online resource (336 p.) :; 6 illus.
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Chapter 1. Building Blocs: Groups and Contested Party Transformations
  • Chapter 2. Overcoming a Troubled History: Civil Rights Groups Seek a Coalition with Labor
  • Chapter 3. Labor’s Interest in a Civil Rights Coalition
  • Chapter 4. Twisting the Donkey’s Tail: How Groups Changed a Reluctant Party
  • Chapter 5. Maintaining the Democratic Trajectory on Civil Rights
  • Chapter 6. Conservative Christians Before the Christian Right
  • Chapter 7. A Christian Right Takes Shape
  • Chapter 8. The First Wave of Cultural Conservative Politics
  • Chapter 9. Eating the Elephant, One Bite at a Time: Influencing a National Party Through State Politics
  • Chapter 10. Conversions: Republican Nominations After Reagan
  • Chapter 11. Other Evidence: Populism and Gay Rights
  • Conclusion
  • Notes
  • Manuscript Sources
  • Index
  • Acknowledgments

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