LEADER 02955oam 22005054a 450 001 9910778990003321 005 20230912222036.0 010 $a0-8173-8668-8 010 $a0-585-14106-1 035 $a(CKB)111004368625276 035 $a(EBL)1122644 035 $a(OCoLC)827207301 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000218395 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11208252 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000218395 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10213970 035 $a(PQKB)11382161 035 $a(OCoLC)44957128 035 $a(MdBmJHUP)muse38495 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC1122644 035 $a(EXLCZ)99111004368625276 100 $a19961209d1998 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 181 $ctxt$2rdacontent 182 $cc$2rdamedia 183 $acr$2rdacarrier 200 00$aParty organization and activism in the American South /$fedited by Robert P. Steed [et al.] 210 $aTuscaloosa $cUniversity of Alabama Press$dc1998 215 $a1 online resource (278 pages) 311 0 $a0-8173-0894-6 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references (p. [239]-255) and index. 327 $aContents; 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 327 $a11. 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 330 $aThese 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 606 $aPolitical parties$zSouthern States 607 $aSouthern States$xPolitics and government$y1951- 615 0$aPolitical parties 676 $a324.275 701 $aSteed$b Robert P$01486218 801 0$bMdBmJHUP 801 1$bMdBmJHUP 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910778990003321 996 $aParty organization and activism in the American South$93705670 997 $aUNINA