Uneasy Alliances : : Race and Party Competition in America / / Paul Frymer.

Uneasy Alliances is a powerful challenge to how we think about the relationship between race, political parties, and American democracy. While scholars frequently claim that the need to win elections makes government officials responsive to any and all voters, Paul Frymer shows that not all groups a...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter DG and UP eBook Package 2000-2015
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Place / Publishing House:Princeton, NJ : : Princeton University Press, , [2010]
©2011
Year of Publication:2010
Edition:With a New afterword by the author
Language:English
Series:Princeton Studies in American Politics: Historical, International, and Comparative Perspectives ; 114
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Physical Description:1 online resource (248 p.)
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • List of Illustrations
  • Acknowledgments
  • Chapter 1. Introduction
  • Chapter 2. Competitive Parties and the "Invisibility" of Captured Groups
  • Chapter 3. National Party Competition and the Disenfranchisement of Black Voters in the South, 1866-1932
  • Chapter 4. Capture Inside the Democratic Party, 1965-1996
  • Chapter 5. Party Education and Mobilization and the Captured Group
  • Chapter 6. Black Representation in Congress
  • Chapter 7. Is the Concept of Electoral Capture Applicable to Other Groups? The Case of Gay and Lesbian Voters in the Democratic Party and the Christian Right in the Republican Party
  • Afterword to the 2010 Edition. Obama and the Representation of Captured Groups
  • Index