Partisan approaches to postwar American politics
By: Byron E. Shafer, with Harold E. Bass Jr. ... [et al.].
Publisher: Chatham House Publishers; Chatham House Publishers/Seven Bridges Press
Published: 1998
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 278
Subjects: Political parties -- United States.; United States -- Politics and government -- 1945-1989.; United States -- Politics and government -- 1989-
Description: In Partisan Approaches to Postwar American Politics, Byron E. Shafer leads a distinguished panel of expert commentators who focus, in parallel chapters, on the dramatic dimensions of political change over the years 1946-1996 as observed in six major elements of parties and partisanship: Randall W. Strahan examines the role of national party officeholders as reflectors as well as agents of political change; Nicol C.

Rae analyzes the evolving structure of party factions that link these officeholders to the main social forces of their time; Byron E. Shafer explores the emerging dynamic among partisan elites that translate these shifting social forces into influences on public policymaking; John F. Bibby addresses the radical transformation of party organizations from weak confederacies to modern bureaucracies with a national strategy; William G. Mayer surveys the subtle and complicated shifts in public loyalties that underlie the era's changing patterns of mass partisanship; and Harold F.

Bass, Jr. chronicles remarkable developments in the partisan rules that set the conditions of participation for all actors in the electoral system.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.