When Movements Anchor Parties (eBook)

Electoral Alignments in American History

Daniel Schlozman (Autor)

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2015
288 Seiten
Princeton University Press (Verlag)
978-1-4008-7383-8 (ISBN)

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

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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.

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 1.9.2015
• Reihe/Serie: Princeton Studies in American Politics
• Reihe/Serie: Princeton Studies in American Politics: Historical, International, and Comparative Perspectives
• Zusatzinfo: 5 tables.
• Verlagsort: Princeton
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte ► Regional- / Ländergeschichte
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Politik / Verwaltung ► Politische Theorie
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Politik / Verwaltung ► Staat / Verwaltung
• Schlagworte: activism • African Americans • Amalgamated Clothing Workers of America • American Federation of Labor • American Labor party • ballot • barack obama • Bill Clinton • Brookings Institution • bureaucrat • Cambridge University Press • Capitalism • caucus • Christian Right • Civil Society • collective bargaining • communism • conservative coalition • conservative democrat • Democracy • democratic national committee • Election • Employment • Filibuster (military) • George McGovern • George W. Bush • Government • Grassroots • Harry S. Truman • Ideology • Industrial relations • industrial worker • Insurgency • Jimmy Carter • John L. Lewis • Knights of Labor • Labor history of the United States • Labor Management Relations Act of 1947 • labor relations • labour law • Labour movement • left-wing politics • Legislation • Liberalism • lobbying • majority • Major party • Martin Shefter • Midterm election • Moral Majority • National Association for the Advancement of Colored People • Nationalization • National Labor Relations Act • National Labor Relations Board • Nomination • Nonpartisan League • Operation Dixie • Oxford University Press • Party System • Paul Weyrich • Policy • Political Action Committee • Political Campaign • Political Economy • Political organization • Political Party • Political Science • Politician • Politics • politics of the united states • Populism • Prerogative • Princeton University Press • Racism • Radicalism (historical) • Regime • Republicanism • Richard Viguerie • right-wing politics • Ronald Reagan • Second New Deal • Seymour Martin Lipset • Sidney Hillman • Social Democracy • Social Movement • Southern Democrats • Suffrage • Tax • The Administrative State • Theda Skocpol • Trade Union • Trotskyism • two-party system • Union shop • United Automobile Workers • Veto • Voting • Voting Rights Act of 1965 • Welfare State • william jennings bryan
• ISBN-10: 1-4008-7383-5 / 1400873835
• ISBN-13: 978-1-4008-7383-8 / 9781400873838