Political Parties, Interest Groups, and Political Campaigns
Publisher: Westview Press
Published: March 1999
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 322
ISBN-13: 9780813380087
Subjects: Pressure groups; Political campaigns; Political Process - General; Political Science; Politics / Current Events; Politics/International Relations; USA; Political parties; Government - U.S. Government; Political Process - Political Parties; United States
First sentence: Parties, interest groups, and campaigns are the essence of contemporary American politics.
Description: "In one integrated text, Political Parties, Interest Groups, and Political Campaigns covers the history and contemporary organization of political parties, the nature of the electoral system and modern. American election campaigns, and the activities of interest groups. This book is intended for use in courses dealing with political parties, campaigns and elections, or interest groups.

Its central theme is that the actions of political parties and interest groups are no longer played out in separate spheres of the political world, but are increasingly bound together."--BOOK JACKET.