Shefter Political Parties and the State

The American Historical Experience
Course Book
ISBN: 978-1-4008-2122-8
Verlag: De Gruyter
Format: PDF
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E-Book, Englisch, 316 Seiten

Reihe: Princeton Studies in American Politics: Historical, International, and Comparative Perspectives

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Autoren/Hrsg.

Shefter, Martin

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Politikwissenschaft Allgemein Politische Geschichte
• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Politikwissenschaft Allgemein Politische Theorie, Politische Philosophie

Inhaltsverzeichnis

List of Tables and Figures

Preface

Ch. 1 Political Parties and States 3

Pt. I Party and Patronage in Europe and America 19

Ch. 2 Patronage and Its Opponents: A Theory and Some European Cases 21

Ch. 3 Party, Bureaucracy, and Political Change in the United States 61

Pt. II Economic Interests and Political Organization in the United States 99

Ch. 4 Trade Unions and Political Machines: The Organization and Disorganization of the American Working Class 101

Ch. 5 Regional Receptivity to Reform in the United States 169

Pt. III Political Parties and Political Control 195

Ch. 6 Political Incorporation and Political Extrusion: Party Politics and Social Forces in Postwar New York 197

Ch. 7 New York City's Fiscal Crisis: Countering the Politics of Mass Mobilization 233

Notes 259

Author Index 293

Subject Index 297

Über Autor(innen)

Martin Shefter is Professor of Government at Cornell University. He is author of Political Crisis/Fiscal Crisis: The Collapse and Revival of New York City (Columbia), co-author, with Benjamin Ginsberg, of Politics by Other Means: The Declining Importance of Elections in America (Basic Books), and editor of Capital of the American Century: The National and International Influence of New York City (Russell Sage).