A long-standing debate in American politics is about the proper
structure for political parties and the relative power that should
be afforded to party professionals versus issue activists. In this
book, Byron E. Shafer and Regina L. Wagner draw systematically on
new data and indexes to evaluate the extent to which party
structure changed from the 1950s on, and what the consequences have
been for policy responsiveness, democratic representation, and
party alignment across different issue domains. They argue that the
reputed triumph of volunteer parties since the 1970s has been less
comprehensive than the orthodox narrative assumes, but that the
balance of power did shift, with unintended and sometimes perverse
consequences. In the process of evaluating its central questions,
this book gives an account of how partisan alignments evolved with
newly empowered issue activists and major post-war developments
from the civil rights movement to the culture wars.
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