Ideas of Power
Subtitle: The Politics of American Party Ideology Development
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2019
Language: eng
Number of pages: 214
ISBN-13: 9781108701549
Subjects: Political parties, united states; Ideology; United states, politics and government
Description: "This book tells the story of American party ideology development by chronicling the ideas and rhetoric articulated by the two major parties throughout U.S. history: from the Federalists and Republicans of the late eighteenth century, to the Whigs and Democrats of the mid-nineteenth century, to the Republicans and Democrats of today. Unlike most scholars of American party ideologies, I emphasize how they have changed over time rather than how they have stayed the same"--