Political Parties and the State : : The American Historical Experience / / Martin Shefter.

This book collects a number of Martin Shefter's most important articles on political parties. They address three questions: Under what conditions will strong party organizations emerge? What influences the character of parties--in particular, their reliance on patronage? In what circumstances w...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Princeton University Press eBook-Package Archive 1927-1999
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Place / Publishing House:Princeton, NJ : : Princeton University Press, , [1993]
©1994
Year of Publication:1993
Edition:Course Book
Language:English
Series:Princeton Studies in American Politics: Historical, International, and Comparative Perspectives ; 34
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Physical Description:1 online resource (316 p.) :; 2 line illus.
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • List of Tables and Figures
  • Preface
  • Chapter 1. Political Parties and States
  • PART I: PARTY AND PATRONAGE IN EUROPE AND AMERICA
  • Chapter 2. Patronage and Its Opponents: A Theory and Some European Cases
  • Chapter 3. Party, Bureaucracy, and Political Change in the United States
  • PART II: ECONOMIC INTERESTS AND POLITICAL ORGANIZATION IN THE UNITED STATES
  • Chapter 4 .Trade Unions and Political Machines: The Organization and Disorganization of the American Working Class
  • Chapter 5. Regional Receptivity to Reform in the United States
  • PART III: POLITICAL PARTIES AND POLITICAL CONTROL
  • Chapter 6. Political Incorporation and Political Extrusion: Party Politics and Social Forces in Postwar New York
  • Chapter 7. New York City's Fiscal Crisis: Countering the Politics of Mass Mobilization
  • Notes
  • Author Index
  • Subject Index