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First to the party : the group origins of party transformation /
What determines the interests, ideologies, and alliances that make up political parties? In its entire history, the United States has had only a handful of party transformations. First to the Party concludes that groups like unions and churches, not voters or politicians, are the most consistent inf...
| Call Number: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Format: | Electronic eBook |
| Language: | Inglés |
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Philadelphia :
University of Pennsylvania Press,
[2018]
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| Series: | American governance.
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| Online Access: | Texto completo |
Table of Contents:
- Building blocs: groups and contested party transformations
- Overcoming a troubled history: civil rights groups seek a coalition with labor
- Labor's interest in a civil rights coalition
- Twisting the donkey's tail: how groups changed a reluctant party
- Maintaining the democratic trajectory on civil rights
- Conservative Christians before the Christian right
- A Christian right takes shape
- The first wave of cultural conservative politics
- Eating the elephant, one bite at a time: influencing a national party through state politics
- Conversions: Republican nominations after Reagan
- Other evidence: populism and gay rights.