Divergent Democracy (eBook)

How Policy Positions Came to Dominate Party Competition

Katherine Krimmel (Autor)

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2024
296 Seiten
Princeton University Press (Verlag)
978-0-691-25806-5 (ISBN)

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An innovative examination of the shift by American political parties toward issue-based differentiationRecent Democratic and Republican party platforms display clear differences on such issues as abortion, LGBTQ+ rights, gun control, and the environment. These distinctions reflect a programmatic party systemthat is, one in which policy positions serve as a key basis of electoral competition. Yet party politics were not always so issue-oriented; the rise of policy positions as the dominant marker of party appeal occurred largely over the last fifty years. In Divergent Democracy, Katherine Krimmel examines this transformation of the American party system, using innovative machine learning techniques to develop and present the first measure of party differentiation on issues since Democrats and Republicans began competing with each other in 1856.Why did the shift to issue-based party competition take more than a century to materialize? Krimmel offers a groundbreaking theory, focusing on what aids and constrains parties' abilities to do the difficult, conflict-ridden work of developing issue positions. She argues that clientelistic subnational party organizations, promising material support or jobs in return for votes, long impeded programmatic partisanship while the growth of national party organizations facilitated it. Moreover, institutions and agents of racial oppression extended the life of nonprogrammatic practices, as they attempted to shield discriminatory laws and institutions from interparty competition. Following the civil rights revolution of the 1960s, space opened for programmatic competition to grow.Using both quantitative and qualitative tools, Krimmel offers a vital view of the foundations of today's issue-based party competition and its alternatives.

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 23.7.2024
• Reihe/Serie: Princeton Studies in American Politics
• Reihe/Serie: Princeton Studies in American Politics: Historical, International, and Comparative Perspectives
• Zusatzinfo: 24 b/w illus. 3 tables.
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Politik / Verwaltung ► Politische Systeme
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Politik / Verwaltung ► Staat / Verwaltung
• Schlagworte: Advisory • Advisory Committee • African-Americans • American Political Development • American political history • American Political Science Association • American Politics • Automated Content Analysis • batt • benoit • Blei • Brock • Christian • Civil War • clientelis • commission • Comparative Agendas Project • Comparative Manifestos Project • Congress • Congressional • counsel • DALP • Democracy • democratic • Democratic Advisory Council • democratic convention • democratic national • democratic national convention • democratic party • Democrats • Depression • DNC • DW-NOMINATE • electoral competition • Executive Committee • Frank Committee • Fraser • Great Depression • Gross Domestic Product • Institutions • Issues • Jacksonian • Lapinski • Latent Dirichlet Allocation • Laver • league • machine learning • Mugwumps • Multi-Method • National Advisory Council • national convention • neill • New Deal • new politics • Online Appendix • Parties • Party competition • path dependence • Patronage • Patronage Legacies • Permanent Chairman • platforms • polarization • Policy • political machines • Proksch • Puck • qualitative • Race • racial orders • Raskob • RCPP • Republican • Republican Coordinating Committee • Republican National Committees • republican national convention • Republican Party • Republican platform • Research Division • responsible party government • rnc • Schattschneider • Senate • Senator • Slapin • Social Security • Structural Topic Models • supplemental nutrition assistance program • TPO • UCLA • Wang • White House • Wordfish • Works Progress Administration • World War
• ISBN-10: 0-691-25806-6 / 0691258066
• ISBN-13: 978-0-691-25806-5 / 9780691258065