The Nationalization of American Political Parties, 1880-1896

AvDaniel Klinghard

Inbunden, Engelska, 2010

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This book investigates the creation of the first truly nationalized party organizations in the United States in the late nineteenth century, an innovation that reversed the parties' traditional privileging of state and local interests in nominating campaigns and the conduct of national campaigns. Between 1880 and 1896, party elites crafted a defense of these national organizations that charted the theoretical parameters of American party development into the twentieth century. With empowered national committees and a new understanding of the parties' role in the political system, national party leaders dominated American politics in new ways, renewed the parties' legitimacy in an increasingly pluralistic and nationalized political environment, and thus maintained their relevance throughout the twentieth century. The new organizations particularly served the interests of presidents and presidential candidates, and the little-studied presidencies of the late nineteenth century demonstrate the first stirrings of modern presidential party leadership.

Produktinformation

Utgivningsdatum:2010-04-19
Mått:163 x 243 x 23 mm
Vikt:540 g
Format:Inbunden
Språk:Engelska
Antal sidor:280
Förlag:Cambridge University Press
ISBN:9780521192811

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Daniel Klinghard is Assistant Professor of Political Science at the College of the Holy Cross in Worcester, Massachusetts.

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“In recent years, our understanding of long-term change within America’s political parties has been increasing greatly. Rather simplistic accounts of how the decentralized 19th-century parties had transformed themselves into the more centralized and candidate-dominated parties of the later 20th century have been superseded by more subtle explanations. Daniel Klinghard’s excellent book represents an important contribution to the research in political science and political history that has illuminated the long gestation period of much of the party transformation. Klinghard shows how moves towards more nationalized party organizations started early in the 1880s, and also how late 19th-century developments were a springboard for change in the next century. It is a book that displays great insight into the complexities of party politics at the end of the so-called ‘party period.’” – Alan Ware, University of Oxford

Innehållsförteckning

Introduction; 1. Localism and the Jacksonian mode; 2. The nineteenth-century associational explosion and the challenge to the Jacksonian mode; 3. Organizational transformation and the national parties; 4. National campaign clubs and the party-in-the-electorate; 5. Grover Cleveland and the emergence of presidential party leadership; 6. Party transformation in the Republican Party; Conclusion.