Kenneth Janda is Payson S. Wild Professor Emeritus of Political Science at Northwestern University. He is the author or coauthor of numerous books, including the textbook The Challenge of Democracy: American Government in Global Politics (fifteenth edition, 2021), and he was coeditor of the journal Party Politics for two decades. Janda received the Samuel J. Eldersveld Lifetime Achievement Award for his work on political parties and the Frank J. Goodnow Award for service to the discipline, both from the American Political Science Association.

This fascinating study traces the Republican Party’s view of the world and itself from birth to the present. Janda’s scholarship provides information and insights that people of good intention can employ to save this fast-failing political institution, which in turn threatens American democracy. This book belongs on the must-read list needed to save our two-party system and our democracy.

• PrefaceIntroductionPart I: Political Parties and Principles1. Political Parties2. Government Benefits3. Party Platforms and PrinciplesPart II: Republican Party Planks4. Beyond Liberal and Conservative5. Republican Platform Planks Since 1856Part III: Principles of Republicanism6. Original Principles7. Financing Government8. Economic Affairs9. Law and Order10. Culture and Order11. Conservation and Conservatives12. Elections13. Evolving to EthnocentrismPart IV: Republicans as Team, Tribe, and Cult14. Electoral Teams15. The Political Tribe16. The Personality CultPart V: Republican Restoration17. The Party in Peril18. A Republican EpiphanyEpilogue: The Next Republican EraAppendix A: Validating the CodingAppendix B: Accounting for All 2,722 Republican Platform PlanksAcknowledgmentsNotesBibliographyIndex

Kenneth Janda is Payson S. Wild Professor Emeritus of Political Science at Northwestern University. He is the author or coauthor of numerous books, including the textbook The Challenge of Democracy: American Government in Global Politics (fifteenth edition, 2021), and he was coeditor of the journal Party Politics for two decades. Janda received the Samuel J. Eldersveld Lifetime Achievement Award for his work on political parties and the Frank J. Goodnow Award for service to the discipline, both from the American Political Science Association.

This fascinating study traces the Republican Party’s view of the world and itself from birth to the present. Janda’s scholarship provides information and insights that people of good intention can employ to save this fast-failing political institution, which in turn threatens American democracy. This book belongs on the must-read list needed to save our two-party system and our democracy.

• PrefaceIntroductionPart I: Political Parties and Principles1. Political Parties2. Government Benefits3. Party Platforms and PrinciplesPart II: Republican Party Planks4. Beyond Liberal and Conservative5. Republican Platform Planks Since 1856Part III: Principles of Republicanism6. Original Principles7. Financing Government8. Economic Affairs9. Law and Order10. Culture and Order11. Conservation and Conservatives12. Elections13. Evolving to EthnocentrismPart IV: Republicans as Team, Tribe, and Cult14. Electoral Teams15. The Political Tribe16. The Personality CultPart V: Republican Restoration17. The Party in Peril18. A Republican EpiphanyEpilogue: The Next Republican EraAppendix A: Validating the CodingAppendix B: Accounting for All 2,722 Republican Platform PlanksAcknowledgmentsNotesBibliographyIndex

Kenneth Janda is Payson S. Wild Professor Emeritus of Political Science at Northwestern University. He is the author or coauthor of numerous books, including the textbook The Challenge of Democracy: American Government in Global Politics (fifteenth edition, 2021), and he was coeditor of the journal Party Politics for two decades. Janda received the Samuel J. Eldersveld Lifetime Achievement Award for his work on political parties and the Frank J. Goodnow Award for service to the discipline, both from the American Political Science Association.

This fascinating study traces the Republican Party’s view of the world and itself from birth to the present. Janda’s scholarship provides information and insights that people of good intention can employ to save this fast-failing political institution, which in turn threatens American democracy. This book belongs on the must-read list needed to save our two-party system and our democracy.

• PrefaceIntroductionPart I: Political Parties and Principles1. Political Parties2. Government Benefits3. Party Platforms and PrinciplesPart II: Republican Party Planks4. Beyond Liberal and Conservative5. Republican Platform Planks Since 1856Part III: Principles of Republicanism6. Original Principles7. Financing Government8. Economic Affairs9. Law and Order10. Culture and Order11. Conservation and Conservatives12. Elections13. Evolving to EthnocentrismPart IV: Republicans as Team, Tribe, and Cult14. Electoral Teams15. The Political Tribe16. The Personality CultPart V: Republican Restoration17. The Party in Peril18. A Republican EpiphanyEpilogue: The Next Republican EraAppendix A: Validating the CodingAppendix B: Accounting for All 2,722 Republican Platform PlanksAcknowledgmentsNotesBibliographyIndex