Party Politics in America

19. Auflage 2025
ISBN: 978-1-032-35424-8
Verlag: Routledge

Buch, Englisch, 448 Seiten, Format (B × H): 152 mm x 229 mm, Gewicht: 644 g

Long regarded as the “gold standard” of political parties texts, this new, nineteenth edition of Party Politics in America brings its comprehensive and authoritative coverage of party politics into an age of heightened partisan conflict; threats to the acceptance of democratic institutions; changes in the balance of power among the president, Congress, and the Supreme Court, and judicial rulings that upend long-established precedents. Marjorie Hershey and Barry Burden build on the book’s three-pronged coverage of party organization, party in the electorate, and party in government and incorporate important developments in racial politics, social media use, and battles over access to the vote. The book uses contemporary examples to bring to life the fascinating story of how parties shape our political system.

New to the nineteenth edition:

- Fully updated through the 2022 and 2024 elections, including changes in virtually all the empirical data, boxed materials, and examples throughout the book

- Discusses the transformation of the Republican Party into the Party of Trump, with attendant changes in the parties’ coalitions and electoral prospects

- Examines the relevance of party politics and elections to college-age and other young voters in times of intense and off-putting polarization

- Considers the implications of recent changes in both parties to the likelihood that democracy will survive in the US

- Provides online Instructor’s Resources, including author-written test banks, essay questions, relevant websites with correlated sample assignments, and links to a collection of course syllabi

Zielgruppe

Undergraduate

Autoren/Hrsg.

Hershey, Marjorie Randon

Burden, Barry C.

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Politische Systeme Politische Parteien
• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Politische Systeme Wahlen und Volksabstimmungen
• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Politische Kultur Politische Propaganda & Kampagnen, Politik & Medien

Inhaltsverzeichnis

List of Figures  List of Tables

List of Boxes

Foreword by John H. Aldrich

PART I PARTIES AND PARTY SYSTEMS

1. What Are Political Parties?

2. The American Two-Party System

PART II THE POLITICAL PARTY AS AN ORGANIZATION

3. The State and Local Party Organizations

4. The Parties' National Organizations

5. Party Activists

PART III THE POLITICAL PARTY IN THE ELECTORATE

6. Party Identification

7. Party Coalitions and Polarization

8. Parties and Voter Turnout

PART IV PARTIES, NOMINATIONS, AND ELECTIONS

9. How Parties Choose Candidates

10. Choosing the Presidential Nominees

11. The General Election

12. Financing the Campaigns

PART V THE PARTY IN GOVERNMENT

13. Parties in Congress and State Legislatures

14. The Party in the Executive and the Courts

15. The Semi-Responsible Parties

16. The Place of Parties in American Politics

Über Autor(innen)

Marjorie Randon Hershey is Professor of Political Science Emerita at Indiana University, USA.

Barry C. Burden is Professor of Political Science at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, USA.