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Uneasy alliances : race and party competition in America /

Uneasy Alliances is a powerful challenge to how we think about the relationship between race, political parties, and American democracy. While scholars frequently claim that the need to win elections makes government officials responsive to any and all voters, Paul Frymer shows that not all groups a...

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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Frymer, Paul
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Princeton, N.J. ; Woodstock : Princeton University Press, 2010.
Series:Princeton studies in American politics.
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Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • Cover; Contents; List of Illustrations; Acknowledgments; Chapter 1. Introduction; Chapter 2. Competitive Parties and the "Invisibility" of Captured Groups; Chapter 3. National Party Competition and the Disenfranchisement of Black Voters in the South, 1866-1932; Chapter 4. Capture Inside the Democratic Party, 1965-1996; Chapter 5. Party Education and Mobilization and the Captured Group; Chapter 6. Black Representation in Congress.