Table of Contents
List of Figures
List of Tables
List of Boxes
Foreword by John H. Aldrich
Preface
Acknowledgments
Part I Parties and Party Systems
1 What Are Political Parties?
2 The American Two-Party System
Part II The Political Party as an Organization
3 The State and Local Party Organizations
4 The Parties’ National Organizations
5 Party Activists
Part III The Political Party in the Electorate
6 Party Identification
7 Party Coalitions and Party Change
8 Parties and Voter Turnout
Part IV Parties, Nominations, and Elections
9 How Parties Choose Candidates
10 Choosing the Presidential Nominees
11 The General Election
12 Financing the Campaigns
Part V The Party in Government
13 Parties in Congress and State Legislatures
14 The Party in the Executive and the Courts
15 The Semi-Responsible Parties
16 The Place of Parties in American Politics