Party organization and activism in the American South / edited by Robert P. Steed...[and others].

Format Book
Publication InfoTuscaloosa : University of Alabama Press, 2013.
Descriptionx, 263 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm
Subjects
Political party organization--United States.
Political parties--Southern States.
Southern States--Politics and government. --1951-.

Other author/creatorSteed, Robert P.
Other author/creatorClark, John A.
Other author/creatorBowman, Lewis.
Other author/creatorHadley, Charles D.
Contents Introduction : local political parties and party scholarship / John A. Clark ... [et al.] -- Recruiting activists / William E. Hulbary and Lewis Bowman -- Activists' incentives / Stephen D. Shaffer and David A. Breaux -- Purist versus pragmatic orientations / Charles Prysby -- Ambition and local party activists / Robert P. Steed, Laurence W. Moreland, and Tod A. Baker -- Parties, ideology, and issues : the structuring of political conflict / Robert P. Steed -- Party maintenance activities / Frank B. Feigert and John R. Todd -- Campaign activities / John A. Clark, Brad Lockerbie, and Peter W. Wielhouwer -- Communication patterns / David Brodsky and Simeon Brodsky -- Factions in the politics of the New South / John McGlennon -- Mass/elite linkage / David Breaux, Stephen D. Shaffer, and Patrick Cotter -- Strength of party attachment / Robert P. Steed and Lewis Bowman -- Party activists as agents of change : women, Blacks, and political parties in the South / Rosalee A. Clawson and John A. Clark -- Summing up : organization and activism at the grassroots level in the 1990s / Lewis Bowman, John A. Clark, and Robert P. Steed.
Bibliography noteIncludes bibliographical references (p. [239]-255) and index.
ISBN9780817357474
ISBN0817357475

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