Third Parties in America (eBook)

Citizen Response to Major Party Failure - Updated and Expanded Second Edition

Steven J. Rosenstone, Roy L. Behr, Edward H. Lazarus (Autoren)

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2018 | 2. Auflage
306 Seiten
Princeton University Press (Verlag)
978-0-691-19052-5 (ISBN)

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In recent years a growing number of citizens have defected from the major parties to third party presidential candidates. Over the past three decades, independent campaigns led by George Wallace, John Anderson, and Ross Perot have attracted more electoral support than at any time since the 1920s. Third Parties in America explains why and when the two-party system deteriorates and third parties flourish. Relying on data from presidential elections between 1840 and 1992, it identifies the situations in which Americans abandon the major parties and shows how third parties encourage major party responsiveness and broader representation of political interests.

Autor

Steven J. Rosenstone is Professor of Political Science at the University of Michigan and a Program Director at the Institute for Social Research, where he serves as the Principal Investigator for the National Election Studies. He is author of Mobilization, Participation, and Democracy in America (with J. M. Hansen), Forecasting Presidential Elections, and Who Votes? (with R. Wolfinger). Roy L. Behr is a political consultant with Greer, Margolis, Mitchell, Burns and Associates in Santa Monica, California. Edward H. Lazarus is a political consultant in Washington, D.C.

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 5.6.2018
• Verlagsort: Princeton
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Sachbuch/Ratgeber ► Geschichte / Politik ► 20. Jahrhundert bis 1945
• Schlagworte: Alf Landon • Al Gore • American Federation of Labor • American Independent Party • American Labor party • American Railway Union • Associated Press • ballot • Border states (American Civil War) • Campaign finance in the United States • Campaign finance reform in the United States • Centre-right politics • Citizens (Spanish political party) • Clark Clifford • Conspiracy Theory • Constitutional Union Party (United States) • Contract with America • defection • Dixiecrat • Elections in the United States • Electoral College (United States) • Eugene V. Debs • franklin pierce • Frank Luntz • Free Soil Party • George McGovern • Gerald L. K. Smith • Grover Cleveland • H. R. Haldeman • Independent (voter) • James Buchanan • James B. Weaver • James G. Blaine • Jimmy Carter • John Rarick • left-wing politics • Lester Maddox • Libertarian Party (United States) • Major party • Martin Van Buren • Midterm election • Millard Fillmore • Minor party • name recognition • National Government (United Kingdom) • Nationalization • National Labor Union • National States' Rights Party • New Deal coalition • New Hampshire primary • Newsweek • Newt Gingrich • Nonpartisan League • North American Free Trade Agreement • Northern Democrats • Opposition to immigration • Orson Swindle • Orval Faubus • Political Action Committee • political agenda • political alienation • Political Campaign • political machine • political spectrum • Politician • popular sovereignty • Populism • Primary Election • Progressive Party (United States, 1912) • Progressivism in the United States • Prohibition • Prohibition Party • Radicalism (historical) • Realigning election • Republican Congress • Republicanism • Republican Party (United States) • Richard Nixon • ross perot • running mate • Saddam Hussein • Sedition • Southern strategy • Split-ticket voting • Stephen A. Douglas • Tax • Term limit • The American Voter • third world • three-fifths compromise • two-party system • United States • United States Note • United We Stand America • Voting • Wendell Willkie • Whigs (British political party) • William Borah • william jennings bryan • Write-in candidate
• ISBN-10: 0-691-19052-6 / 0691190526
• ISBN-13: 978-0-691-19052-5 / 9780691190525