The Decline of American Political Parties, 1952-1994
Author: Martin P. Wattenberg
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Published: 1996
Total Pages: 264
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Author: Martin P. Wattenberg
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Published: 1996
Total Pages: 264
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Martin P. Wattenberg
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Published: 1998
Total Pages: 0
ISBN-13: 9780674194359
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis work looks at the travails of political parties in the United States, by analyzing a congressional election. A new chapter which discusses the return of divided government, via the Republicans' takeover of Congress in 1994, is also included.
Author: Martin P. Wattenberg
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Published: 1998
Total Pages: 274
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Martin P. Wattenberg
Publisher: Harvard University Press
Published: 2009-07-01
Total Pages: 296
ISBN-13: 9780674044968
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe major theme of Chapter 12, new to this edition, is the missed opportunities for the parties in the 1996 elections. The year started with a highly visible confrontation over the budget that could have revitalized the party coalitions if the issues had been carried over to the election. However, the candidate-centered campaign of 1996 ultimately did little to resolve these issues or to reinvigorate partisanship in the electorate. In spite of the opportunities for getting new voters to the polls created by the Motor Voter Act, voter turnout in 1996 was the lowest since 1924. Turning out the vote is one of the most crucial functions of political parties, and their inability to mobalize more than half of the eligible electorate strongly indicates their future decline in importance to voters. Until citizens support the parties more by showing up to cast votes for their candidates, the decline of American political parties must be considered to be an ongoing phenomenon. --From the preface
Author: Martin P. Wattenberg
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Published: 1986
Total Pages: 199
ISBN-13: 9780674195356
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Martin P. Wattenberg
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Published: 1984-01-01
Total Pages: 160
ISBN-13: 9780674194311
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAUTHOR ANALYZES SURVEY RESEARCH THAT SHOWS VOTERS HAVE BECOME MORE NEUTRAL THAN NEGATIVE TOWARD PARTIES AND THAT THE PARTIES ARE INCREASINGLY IRRELEVANT TO THE SOLVING OF REAL NATIONAL PROBLEMS.
Author: Martin P. Wattenberg
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Published: 1994
Total Pages: 248
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis text on the travails of political parties in the United States has been updated to include an analysis of the 1992 presidential election campaign. This edition emphasizes the Ross Perot phenomenon, maintaining that his success indicates that all is not well in American politics.
Author: Martin P. Wattenberg
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Published: 1986-01-01
Total Pages: 199
ISBN-13: 9780674195356
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: L. Sandy Maisel
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Published: 2012-01-12
Total Pages: 718
ISBN-13: 0199604479
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe Oxford Handbooks of American Politics are the essential guide to the study of American political life in the 21st Century. With engaging new contributions from the major figures in the field of political parties and interest groups this Handbook is a key point of reference for anyone working in American Politics today.
Author: Thomas E. Patterson
Publisher: Vintage
Published: 2009-09-09
Total Pages: 288
ISBN-13: 0307548678
DOWNLOAD EBOOKFrom the award-winning author of Out of Order—named the best political science book of the last decade by the American Political Science Association—comes this landmark book about why Americans don’t vote. Based on more than 80,000 interviews, The Vanishing Voter investigates why—despite a better educated citizenry, the end of racial barriers to voting, and simplified voter registration procedures—the percentage of voters has steadily decreased to the point that the United States now has nearly the lowest voting rate in the world. Patterson cites the blurring of differences between the political parties, the news media’s negative bias, and flaws in the election system to explain this disturbing trend while suggesting specific reforms intended to bring Americans back to the polls. Astute, far-reaching, and impeccably researched, The Vanishing Voter engages the very meaning of our relationship to our government.