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Showing 1 to 6 of 6 for “"American Political Parties"”.
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Special Interest Partisanship: The Transformation of American Political Parties
… from fluid, unstructured interactions (akin to political pluralism) to highly institutionalized alliances (as we might see in a firm). Drawing on pluralist scholarship and theories of firm formation and evolution, I explore the costs and benefits of different arrangements, and explain why we …
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The Major American Political Parties as Organizations: The Response to Extreme Dissidence
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Environmental politics in a polarized America : public mood and policy consequences
As the American political parties have polarized and nationalized, what are the implications for environmental policy? This question is particularly important at the state and local levels, where many environmental policy decisions are made and implemented, but about which scholars have drawn mixed …
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Strategic Mourning: America's Journey After the Death of George Washington
… procedures and foundational beliefs of the new American republic. As citizens and leaders faced these challenges, they realized they had differing ideas about the role of a national government and its relationship with the citizenry. Additionally, they disagreed about how to solve problems …
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Do parties still matter? : the politics of gubernatorial nominations
… seeks to answer this simple question. Parties have classically been the organizations held responsible for throwing their collective effort behind a candidate and controlling the nominations. Yet, in recent years, scholars have noted a steady weakening of American political parties …
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State Political Parties in American Politics: Innovation and Integration in the Party System
… party organizations play in twenty-first century American politics? What is the nature of the relationship between the state and national party organizations in contemporary elections? These questions frame the three studies presented in this dissertation. More specifically, I examine the …