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The State of the Parties: The Changing Role of Contemporary American Parties

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Every four years, The State of the Parties brings readers up to date on party action in election years and in between. With the dual themes of continuity and change characterizing the new edition, this essential party primer three new chapters on party roles in the 2008 election, a section on the impact of party resources for the campaign, extensive coverage of party mobilization efforts via the Internet and local activity, and new chapters covering topics ranging from Republicans' fall from grace to party governance under Nancy Pelosi to President Obama's role in party politics, and as always, a distinguished roster of contributors. List of John R. Petrocik, Howard L. Reiter, John S. Jackson III, David Magleby, Melanie J. Blumberg, William C. Binning, Melody Crowder-Meyer, Daniel M. Shea, Ronald B. Rapoport, Kira C. Allmann, Daniel Maliniak, Barbara Trish, Michael J. Malbin, Aaron Dusso, Gregory Fortelny, Brendan Glavin, Raymond J. La Raja, Costas Panagopoulos, J. Quin Monson, Kelly D. Patterson, Jeremy C. Pope, Rebekah E. Liscio, Jeffrey M. Stonecash, Mark D. Brewer, Nancy L. Rosenblum, Richard M. Skinner, R. Lawrence Butler, Walter J. Stone, Matthew Pietryka

416 pages, Paperback

First published November 1, 1994

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has an excellent article called 'toward a responsible three-party system' by theodore j. lowi. that part at least seemed truly out-of-the-box.
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