Incisive and readable, this excellent volume offers an overview of
contemporary campaigns and elections and the role parties play in
them. Anyone looking to better understand and identify important
features of current campaigns and elections, and to place these
features in a historical context, will find the book invaluable.
Drawing on extensive interviewing and archival research, David
Menefee-Libey argues that campaign-centered politics is now the
dominant force in American elections with serious implications for
representative democracy. Data on campaign activities and finance
from the 1998 election is included.
"This work offers a great deal of rich, detailed narrative on
the pressures on and responses by party organizations caught up in
a vortex of contextual change over the past generations. David
Menefee-Libey analyzes the structured interactions among political
elites, discussing campaign-dominated politics in the modern era
and providing a wealth of compelling detail", according to Walter
Dean Burnham of the University of Texas at Austin. "A well-written
and well-developed study of national party organizations, political
party in government, and the new party paradigm", writes Charles D.
Hadley of the University of New Orleans. "It brings together two
very important themes of contemporary American politics: the
scholarship on critical elections and party decline and that on
'responsible parties' to form the 'new party paradigm' of
'campaign-centered politics.'"
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