When Movements Anchor Parties

Electoral Alignments in American History

Daniel Schlozman (Autor)

Buch | Softcover

288 Seiten

2015
Princeton University Press (Verlag)
978-0-691-16470-0 (ISBN)

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Throughout American history, some social movements, such as organized labor and the Christian Right, have forged influential alliances with political parties, while others, such as the antiwar movement, have not. When Movements Anchor Parties provides a bold new interpretation of American electoral history by examining five prominent movements and their relationships with political parties. Taking readers from the Civil War to today, Daniel Schlozman shows how two powerful alliances--those of organized labor and Democrats in the New Deal, and the Christian Right and Republicans since the 1970s--have defined the basic priorities of parties and shaped the available alternatives in national politics. He traces how they diverged sharply from three other major social movements that failed to establish a place inside political parties--the abolitionists following the Civil War, the Populists in the 1890s, and the antiwar movement in the 1960s and 1970s. Moving beyond a view of political parties simply as collections of groups vying for preeminence, Schlozman explores how would-be influencers gain influence--or do not.
He reveals how movements join with parties only when the alliance is beneficial to parties, and how alliance exacts a high price from movements. Their sweeping visions give way to compromise and partial victories. Yet as Schlozman demonstrates, it is well worth paying the price as movements reorient parties' priorities. Timely and compelling, When Movements Anchor Parties demonstrates how alliances have transformed American political parties.

Daniel Schlozman is assistant professor of political science at Johns Hopkins University.

Acknowledgments ix Abbreviations xi Chapter 1 Introduction: The Making of Anchoring Groups 1 Chapter 2 Political Parties and Social Movements 14 Part I Forging Alliance Chapter 3 Labor and the Democrats in the New Deal 49 Chapter 4 "We Are Different from Previous Generations of Conservatives": The New Right and the Mobilization of Evangelicals 77 Chapter 5 The Limits of Influence: Populism and the Antiwar Movement 108 Part II Maintaining Alliance Chapter 6 The Price of Alliance: Labor and the Democrats Meet Postwar Realities 131 Chapter 7 Alliance through Adversity: Labor and the Democrats since the Merger 159 Chapter 8 From the Moral Majority to Karl Rove 198 Chapter 9 The Failure of Abolition-Republicanism 223 Chap ter 10 Conclusion: The Future of Alliance 242 Index 257

Reihe/Serie	Princeton Studies in American Politics
Zusatzinfo	5 tables.
Verlagsort	New Jersey
Sprache	englisch
Maße	152 x 235 mm
Gewicht	454 g
Themenwelt	Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte ► Regional- / Ländergeschichte
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Politik / Verwaltung ► Politische Theorie
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Politik / Verwaltung ► Staat / Verwaltung
ISBN-10	0-691-16470-3 / 0691164703
ISBN-13	978-0-691-16470-0 / 9780691164700
Zustand	Neuware