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Quiet Revolution : Struggle for the Democratic Party and the Shaping of Post-Reform Politics /
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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New York :
Russell Sage Foundation,
[1983]
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| Colección: | Book collections on Project MUSE.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Introduction: The hidden struggle: reform politics, institutional change, and the circulation of elites, 1968-1972
- pt. I. The politics of recommendation. The idea of a Reform Commission: the McCarthy campaign and the "mandate" ; A politics of party reform: the Humphrey campaign and the Party Structure Commission ; An institutionalized bias for reform politics: a statement of purpose and an Executive Committee ; The definition of party reform: the staff in Commission politics ; The internal debate on party reform: the Commissioners in Commission politics ; The content of the mandate: a final meeting and a reform text ; The meaning of the mandate: formal rules and practical effects ; The promulgation of party reform: compliance letters and a published report.
- pt. II. The politics of implementation. The mandate at the national level: the National Chairman and the Commission report ; The mandate at the state level: the state parties and the Commission report ; Reform as an ideology: the elections of 1970 and the functions of the mandate ; The politics of implementation writ small: Pennsylvania accepts reform ; The battle for official status: the preliminary call and the fate of the guidelines ; Climax on the national level: the National Committee and the triumph of the guidelines ; The debate over implementation: state compliance politics and national press analysis ; The National Party revisited: the final call and the triumph of the guidelines
- again ; The re-creation of reform: the Women's Caucus and demographic representation ; The re-creation of reform: the Party Structure Commission and proportionality ; Politics after reform: institutional change and the circulation of elites, 1972-1984
- Appendix A. Summary of the Official guidelines of the Commission on Party Structure and Delegate Selection
- Appendix B. Roster of personal interviews.