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AmericanPoliticalPartiesandElections: AVeryShortIntroduction VERYSHORTINTRODUCTIONSareforanyonewantingastimulating andaccessiblewayintoanewsubject.Theyarewrittenbyexperts,and havebeenpublishedinmorethan25languagesworldwide. Theseriesbeganin1995,andnowrepresentsawidevarietyoftopicsin history,philosophy,religion,science,andthehumanities.Overthenextfew yearsitwillgrowtoalibraryofaround200volumes—aVeryShort IntroductiontoeverythingfromancientEgyptandIndianphilosophyto conceptualartandcosmology. VeryShortIntroductionsavailablenow: AFRICANHISTORY CHRISTIANITY LindaWoodhead JohnParkerandRichardRathbone CLASSICS AMERICANPOLITICALPARTIES MaryBeardandJohnHenderson ANDELECTIONS L.SandyMaisel CLASSICALMYTHOLOGY THEAMERICANPRESIDENCY HelenMorales CharlesO.Jones CLAUSEWITZ MichaelHoward ANARCHISM ColinWard THECOLDWAR RobertMcMahon ANCIENTEGYPT IanShaw CONSCIOUSNESS SusanBlackmore ANCIENTPHILOSOPHY JuliaAnnas CONTEMPORARYART ANCIENTWARFARE JulianStallabrass HarrySidebottom CONTINENTALPHILOSOPHY ANGLICANISM MarkChapman SimonCritchley THEANGLO-SAXONAGE JohnBlair COSMOLOGY PeterColes ANIMALRIGHTS DavidDeGrazia THECRUSADES ChristopherTyerman ARCHAEOLOGY PaulBahn CRYPTOGRAPHY ARCHITECTURE AndrewBallantyne FredPiperandSeanMurphy ARISTOTLE JonathanBarnes DADAAND ARTHISTORY DanaArnold SURREALISM DavidHopkins ARTTHEORY CynthiaFreeland DARWIN JonathanHoward THEHISTORYOFASTRONOMY THEDEADSEASCROLLS TimothyLim MichaelHoskin DEMOCRACY BernardCrick ATHEISM JulianBaggini DESCARTES TomSorell AUGUSTINE HenryChadwick DESIGN JohnHeskett BARTHES JonathanCuller DINOSAURS DavidNorman THEBIBLE JohnRiches DREAMINGJ. AllanHobson THEBRAIN MichaelO’Shea DRUGS LeslieIversen BRITISHPOLITICS AnthonyWright THEEARTH MartinRedfern BUDDHA MichaelCarrithers ECONOMICS ParthaDasgupta BUDDHISM DamienKeown EGYPTIANMYTH GeraldinePinch BUDDHISTETHICS DamienKeown EIGHTEENTH-CENTURY CAPITALISM JamesFulcher BRITAIN PaulLangford THECELTS BarryCunliffe THEELEMENTS PhilipBall CHAOS LeonardSmith EMOTION DylanEvans CHOICETHEORY MichaelAllingham EMPIRE StephenHowe CHRISTIANART BethWilliamson ENGELS TerrellCarver ETHICS SimonBlackburn LITERARYTHEORY JonathanCuller THEEUROPEANUNION JohnPinder LOCKE JohnDunn EVOLUTION LOGIC GrahamPriest BrianandDeborahCharlesworth MACHIAVELLI QuentinSkinner EXISTENTIALISM ThomasFlynn THEMARQUISDESADE JohnPhillips FASCISM KevinPassmore MARX PeterSinger FEMINISM MargaretWalters MATHEMATICS TimothyGowers THEFIRSTWORLDWAR MEDICALETHICS TonyHope MichaelHoward MEDIEVALBRITAIN FOSSILS KeithThomson JohnGillinghamandRalphA.Griffiths FOUCAULT GaryGutting MODERNART DavidCottington THEFRENCHREVOLUTION MODERNIRELAND SeniaPaˇseta WilliamDoyle MOLECULES PhilipBall FREEWILL ThomasPink MUSIC NicholasCook FREUD AnthonyStorr MYTH RobertA.Segal FUNDAMENTALISM MaliseRuthven NATIONALISM StevenGrosby GALILEO StillmanDrake THENEWTESTAMENTAS GANDHI BhikhuParekh LITERATURE KyleKeefer GLOBALCATASTROPHES BillMcGuire NEWTON RobertIliffe GLOBALIZATION ManfredSteger NIETZSCHE MichaelTanner GLOBALWARMING MarkMaslin NINETEENTH-CENTURYBRITAIN THEGREATDEPRESSION ChristopherHarvie ANDTHENEWDEAL andH.C.G.Matthew EricRauchway NORTHERNIRELAND HABERMAS JamesGordonFinlayson MarcMulholland HEGEL PeterSinger PARTICLEPHYSICS FrankClose HEIDEGGER MichaelInwood PAUL E.P.Sanders HIEROGLYPHS PenelopeWilson PHILOSOPHY EdwardCraig HINDUISM KimKnott PHILOSOPHYOFLAW HISTORY JohnH.Arnold RaymondWacks HOBBES RichardTuck PHILOSOPHYOFSCIENCE HUMANEVOLUTION BernardWood SamirOkasha HUMANRIGHTS AndrewClapham PHOTOGRAPHY SteveEdwards HUME A.J.Ayer PLATO JuliaAnnas IDEOLOGY MichaelFreeden POLITICS KennethMinogue INDIANPHILOSOPHY SueHamilton POLITICALPHILOSOPHY INTELLIGENCE IanJ.Deary DavidMiller INTERNATIONALMIGRATION POSTCOLONIALISM RobertYoung KhalidKoser POSTMODERNISM ChristopherButler INTERNATIONALRELATIONS POSTSTRUCTURALISM PaulWilkinson CatherineBelsey ISLAM MaliseRuthven PREHISTORY ChrisGosden JOURNALISM IanHargreaves PRESOCRATICPHILOSOPHY JUDAISM NormanSolomon CatherineOsborne JUNG AnthonyStevens PSYCHOLOGY KABBALAH JosephDan GillianButlerandFredaMcManus KAFKA RitchieRobertson PSYCHIATRY TomBurns KANT RogerScruton QUANTUMTHEORY KIERKEGAARD PatrickGardiner JohnPolkinghorne THEKORAN MichaelCook RACISM AliRattansi LINGUISTICS PeterMatthews THERENAISSANCE JerryBrotton RENAISSANCEART SOCIOLOGY SteveBruce GeraldineA.Johnson SOCRATES C.C.W.Taylor ROMANBRITAIN PeterSalway THESPANISHCIVILWAR THEROMANEMPIRE HelenGraham ChristopherKelly SPINOZA RogerScruton ROUSSEAU RobertWokler STUARTBRITAIN JohnMorrill RUSSELL A.C.Grayling TERRORISM CharlesTownshend RUSSIANLITERATURE CatrionaKelly THEOLOGY DavidF.Ford THERUSSIANREVOLUTION THEHISTORYOFTIME S.A.Smith LeofrancHolford-Strevens SCHIZOPHRENIA TRAGEDY AdrianPoole ChrisFrithandEveJohnstone THETUDORS JohnGuy SCHOPENHAUER TWENTIETH-CENTURY ChristopherJanaway BRITAIN KennethO.Morgan SHAKESPEARE GermaineGreer THEVIKINGS JulianRichards SIKHISM EleanorNesbitt WITTGENSTEIN A.C.Grayling SOCIALANDCULTURAL WORLDMUSIC PhilipBohlman ANTHROPOLOGY THEWORLDTRADE JohnMonaghanandPeterJust ORGANIZATION SOCIALISM MichaelNewman AmritaNarlikar Availablesoon: Antisemitism Geography StevenBeller JohnMatthews&DavidHerbert Bestsellers Geopolitics JohnSutherland KlausDodds ClassicalMythology GermanLiterature HelenMorales NicholasBoyle DocumentaryFilm Memory PatriciaAufderheide JonathanFoster TheEuropeanUnion ModernChina (newedition) RanaMitter JohnPinder&Simon Quakerism Usherwood PinkDandelion Expressionism ScienceandReligion KaterinaReed-Tsocha ThomasDixon GameTheory Sexuality KenBinmore VeroniqueMottier Formoreinformationvisitourwebsite www.oup.co.uk/general/vsi/ L. Sandy Maisel American Political Parties and Elections A Very Short Introduction 1 3 OxfordUniversityPress,Inc.,publishesworksthatfurther OxfordUniversity’sobjectiveofexcellence inresearch,scholarship,andeducation. Oxford NewYork Auckland CapeTown DaresSalaam HongKong Karachi KualaLumpur Madrid Melbourne MexicoCity Nairobi NewDelhi Shanghai Taipei Toronto Withofficesin Argentina Austria Brazil Chile CzechRepublic France Greece Guatemala Hungary Italy Japan Poland Portugal Singapore SouthKorea Switzerland Thailand Turkey Ukraine Vietnam Copyright(cid:1)2007byL.SandyMaisel PublishedbyOxfordUniversityPress,Inc. 198MadisonAvenue,NewYork,NewYork10016 www.oup.com OxfordisaregisteredtrademarkofOxfordUniversityPress Allrightsreserved.Nopartofthispublicationmaybereproduced, storedinaretrievalsystem,ortransmitted,inanyformorbyanymeans, electronic,mechanical,photocopying,recording,orotherwise, withoutthepriorpermissionofOxfordUniversityPress. LibraryofCongressCataloging-in-PublicationData Maisel,LouisSandy,1945- Americanpoliticalpartiesandelections /byL.SandyMaisel. p.cm.—(Averyshortintroduction) Includesbibliographicalreferencesandindex. 978–0–19–530122–9 1.Politicalparties—UnitedStates. 2.Elections—UnitedStates. I.Title. JK1965.M342007 324.973—dc22 2007001843 1 3 5 7 9 8 6 4 2 PrintedintheUnitedStatesofAmerica onacid-freepaper Thisbookisdedicatedwithrespect,admiration,andprofound gratitudetoJoeBoulos,BobDiamond,BobGelbard,BillGoldfarb, andLarryPugh. This page intentionally left blank Contents Listofillustrations x Foreword xi Acknowledgments xv 1 ThecontextofAmericanelectionsandpolitical parties 1 2 AbriefhistoryofAmericanpoliticalparties 28 3 Partyorganizations:Whatdotheylooklike? Whatdotheydo? 56 4 WhoareRepublicans?WhoareDemocrats? Whoarethe‘‘others’’? 77 5 Presidentialelections:Nominatingcampaigns andgeneralelections 91 6 Subnationalnominationsandelections 117 7 Farfromtheperfectdemocracy 135 Notes 148 Forfurtherreading 159 Index 163
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