03042oam 22005294a 450 991045476080332120210106224144.00-8173-8668-80-585-14106-1(CKB)111004368625276(EBL)1122644(OCoLC)827207301(SSID)ssj0000218395(PQKBManifestationID)11208252(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000218395(PQKBWorkID)10213970(PQKB)11382161(OCoLC)44957128(MdBmJHUP)muse38495(MiAaPQ)EBC1122644(EXLCZ)9911100436862527619961209d1998 uy 0engtxtccrParty Organization and Activism in the American South[electronic resource] /edited by Robert P. Steed ... [et al.]Tuscaloosa University of Alabama Pressc19981 online resource (278 p.)Description based upon print version of record.0-8173-0894-6 Includes bibliographical references (p. [239]-255) and index.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 Linkage11. 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; IndexThese 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 revitalizedPolitical partiesSouthern StatesSouthern StatesPolitics and government1951-Electronic books.Political parties324.275Steed Robert P869107MdBmJHUPMdBmJHUPBOOK9910454760803321Party Organization and Activism in the American South2451481UNINA