UID:
edocfu_9958352530102883
Format:
1 online resource (316 pages) :
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illustrations.
Edition:
Course Book.
Edition:
Electronic reproduction. Princeton, N.J. : Princeton University Press, 1994. Mode of access: World Wide Web.
Edition:
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Edition:
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ISBN:
9781400821228
Series Statement:
Princeton Studies in American Politics
Content:
This book collects a number of Martin Shefter's most important articles on political parties. They address three questions: Under what conditions will strong party organizations emerge? What influences the character of parties--in particular, their reliance on patronage? In what circumstances will the parties that formerly dominated politics in a nation or city come under attack? Shefter's work exemplifies the "new institutionalism" in political science, arguing that the reliance of parties on patronage is a function not so much of mass political culture as of their relationship with public bureaucracies. The book's opening chapters analyze the circumstances conducive to the emergence of strong political parties and the changing balance between parties and bureaucracies in Europe and America. The middle chapters discuss the organization and exclusion of the American working classes by machine and reform regimes. The book concludes by examining party organizations as instruments of political control in the largest American city, New York.
Note:
Frontmatter --
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Contents --
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List of Tables and Figures --
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Preface --
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Chapter 1. Political Parties and States --
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Chapter 2. Patronage and Its Opponents: A Theory and Some European Cases --
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Chapter 3. Party, Bureaucracy, and Political Change in the United States --
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Chapter 4.Trade Unions and Political Machines: The Organization and Disorganization of the American Working Class --
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Chapter 5. Regional Receptivity to Reform in the United States --
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Chapter 6. Political Incorporation and Political Extrusion: Party Politics and Social Forces in Postwar New York --
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Chapter 7. New York City's Fiscal Crisis: Countering the Politics of Mass Mobilization --
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Notes --
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Author Index --
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Subject Index.
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In English.
Language:
English
DOI:
10.1515/9781400821228
URL:
https://doi.org/10.1515/9781400821228
