The State of the Parties - The Changing Role of Contemporary American Parties

This volume provides students of political parties with up-to-date information on both the state of American party organizations and controversies over how these organizations are studied. The collection focuses on new direction in party scholarship-including debates over the vitality and relevance of the two party system, the analytical usefulness of the traditional model of American parties, and the import of organizational studies.

About the author

Daniel M. Shea is assistant professor of government and law at Lafayette College. John C. Green is director of the Ray C. Bliss Institute of Applied Politics and associate professor of political science.

Summary

This volume examines American party organizations and controversies over how they are studied. It includes debates over the vitality and relevance of the two party system, the analytical usefulness of the traditional model of parties and the import of organisational studies.

Product details

• Authors: John C. Green, Daniel M. Shea
• Assisted by: John C Green (Editor), John C. Green (Editor), John Clifford Green (Editor), Daniel M Shea (Editor), Daniel M. Shea (Editor)
• Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 31.12.2019
• EAN: 9780847679799
• ISBN: 978-0-8476-7979-9
• No. of pages: 288
• Dimensions: 152 mm x 229 mm x 25 mm
• Weight: 454 g
• Series: People, Passions, and Power: Social Movements, Interest Organizations and the Political Process; People, Passions, and Power: S; People, Passions, and Power: Social Movements, Interest Organizations, and the P; People, Passions, and Power: Social Movements, Interest Organizations, and the P; People, Passions, and Power: S
• Subject: Social sciences, law, business > Political science > Political science and political education