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Democracy and American Political Parties.
How do parties respond to the electorate and craft winning strategies? In the abstract parties are the vehicles to make democracy work, but it is often difficult to see the process working as well as we think it might. Indeed, voters often struggle to see parties as the valuable vehicles of represen...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Hoboken :
Taylor and Francis,
2012.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- 1. Democracy and the ideal role of political parties
- 2. Enduring doubts about political parties
- 3. Notions of party and conflict
- 4. Shifting electoral bases
- 5. Conflicting interpretations of change
- 6. The lack of a majority
- 7. Continuing social change and events
- 8. Voters, partisanship and the media
- 9. Enduring uncertainty and troubling behaviors
- 10. Pursuing coalitions and an identity : long-term strategies
- 11. Disparaging the other party : short-term strategies
- 12. Democracy and the continuous campaign.