| 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. |
