State of the Parties 2022 - The Changing Role of American Political Parties

The State of the Parties 2022 brings together leading scholars of parties, elections, and interest groups to provide an indispensable overview of American political parties today. The 2020 presidential election was extraordinary. What role did political parties play in these events? How did the party organizations fare? What are the implications for the future? Scholars and practitioners from throughout the United States explore the current state of American party organizations, constituencies and resources at the national, state and local level.

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List of Figures
Acknowledgments

The State of the Parties: Change and Continuity in 2020

John C. Green, Kenneth M. Miller, and David B. Cohen
Part I: State of the Parties

An Era of Unstable Majorities Continues

Morris P. Fiorina

Activists Versus Voters: Intra-party Warfare in the Modern World

Byron E. Shafer and Regina L. Wagner

Congressional Primary Challenges and the Health of the Parties

Robert G. Boatright
Part II: Partisan Voters

Peak Polarization? The Rise of Partisan-Ideological Consistency and its Consequences

Alan I. Abramowitz

Political Identity and Beliefs about Stolen Elections in the American Electorate

Anita Manion, David C. Kimball, and Adriano Udani

Major Party Factions in a Battleground State: Self-Identified Factional Affiliation among Pennsylvania Voters

Stephen K. Medvic and Berwood A. Yost

Blue Metros, Red States: The Geography of the 2020 Vote in the Swing States

David F. Damore, Karen A. Danielsen, and Robert E. Lang

Turning the Natural State Red: The Rise of the GOP in Arkansas

John C. Davis
Part III: Partisan Activity

Nationalized Congressional Finance: Evidence from 2018 and 2020

Kenneth M. Miller

The Ground Game in 2020: Party Contacts as Reported by Voters

Paul A. Beck

From Tea Party to Trump Party

Ronald B. Rapoport and W. Henry Crossman
Part IV: Women and Party Politics

The Partisan Gap among Women in Elective Office: 2020 and Beyond

Laurel Elder

Fired Up or Falling Flat: Recruitment of Women Candidates during the Trump Administration

Shannon McQueen

The Super Women and the Super Men behind Super PACs: A New Source of Inequality

Paul S. Herrnson and Jennifer A. Heerwig
References
Index
About the Contributors

About the author

Edited by John C. Green; David B. Cohen and Kenneth M. Miller

Product details

• Authors: Cohen David B., John C. Cohen Green, John C. Green Green, Miller Kenneth M.
• Assisted by: David B. Cohen (Editor), Cohen David B. (Editor), John C. Green (Editor), Green John C. (Editor), Kenneth M. Miller (Editor), Miller Kenneth M. (Editor)
• Publisher: Rowman and Littlefield
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 21.10.2022
• EAN: 9781538164846
• ISBN: 978-1-5381-6484-6
• No. of pages: 328
• Subjects: Social sciences, law, business > Political science > Political science and political education; Political Parties, Donald Trump, Joe Biden, POLITICAL SCIENCE / Political Process / Political Parties, Political Psychology, Polarization, Affective partisanship, Campaign finance, Negative partisanship, UCLA School of Political Parties, The Party Decides, 1950 APSA Report, President Joe Biden