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Record Nr.

UNINA9910826420703321

Titolo

Party organization and activism in the American South / / edited by Robert P. Steed [et al.]

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Tuscaloosa, : University of Alabama Press, c1998

ISBN

0-8173-8668-8

0-585-14106-1

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (278 pages)

Altri autori (Persone)

SteedRobert P

Disciplina

324.275

Soggetti

Political parties - Southern States

Southern States Politics and government 1951-

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (p. [239]-255) and index.

Nota di contenuto

Contents; List of Illustrations; Acknowledgments; Introduction: Local Political Parties and Party Scholarship; Part One: Individuals in Organizations; 1. Recruiting Activists; 2. Activists' Incentives; 3. Purist versus Pragmatic Orientations; 4. Ambition and Local Party Activists; Part Two: Activities in Organizations; 5. Parties, Ideology, and Issues: The Structuring of Political Conflict; 6. Party Maintenance Activities; 7. Campaign Activities; 8. Communication Patterns; Part Three: Party and the Environment; 9. Factions in the Politics of the New South; 10. Mass/Elite Linkage

11. Strength of Party Attachment 12. Party Activists as Agents of Change: Women, Blacks, and Political Parties in the South; 13. Summing Up: Organization and Activism at the Grassroots Level in the 1990's; Notes; Bibliography; Contributors; Index

Sommario/riassunto

These new essays map the ways political parties remain vital components in the American political system, especially in the eleven states in the South. As Tocqueville noted more than 100 years ago, ""No countries need associations more . . . than those with a democratic social state."" Although some contemporary observers see a decline in associations, especially in the political sphere, the contributors in this volume argue not only that political parties remain an essential component of the American political system but also that



grassroots political groups have revitalized