Spoiling for a fight : third-party politics in America / / Micah L. Sifry

• Autore: Sifry Micah L.
• Pubblicazione: New York : , : Routledge, , 2002
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (385 p.)
• Disciplina: 324.273
• Soggetto topico: Third parties (United States politics)
• Soggetto geografico: United States Politics and government 1993-2001
• Note generali: First Routledge paperback edition, 2003.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references (p. 311-354) and index.
• Nota di contenuto: section I. Challenging the duopoly -- section II. Organizing the angry middle -- section III. Organizing the left -- section IV. Organizing from the bottom up -- section V. The future.
• Sommario/riassunto: More Americans now identify as political independents than as either Democrats or Republicans. Tired of the two-party gridlock, the pandering, and the lack of vision, they've turned in increasing numbers to independent and third-party candidates. In 1998, for the first time in decades, a third-party candidate who was not a refugee from one of the two major parties, Jesse Ventura, won election to state-wide office, as the governor of Minnesota. In 2000, the public was riveted by the Reform Party's implosion over Patrick Buchanan's presidential candidacy and by Ralph Nader's Green Party run, whi
• Titolo autorizzato: Spoiling for a fight
• ISBN: 1-136-05922-9; 1-283-96272-1; 0-203-61524-7; 1-136-05914-8
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910807155203321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II