Title: Partisan approaches to postwar American politics
First published: 1998
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.
Subjects: Politics and government, Political parties, Political Process, Elections, General, Parteipolitik, POLITICAL SCIENCE, Partei, Aufsatzsammlung, United states, politics and government, 20th century, Political science, united states
Places: United States
Time periods: 1989-, 1945-1989
LC classification: JK2261 .S4297 1998