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Author_Martin Shefter
Benjamin Ginsberg (political scientist)
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Citizens (Spanish political party)
Civil service
Corporatocracy
Democratic-Republican Societies
Domestic policy
Election law
Employment
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Federalist Party
Ideology
Institution
Insurgency
Jacksonian democracy
Labour movement
Legislation
Major party
Mass mobilization
Multi-party system
Nation-building
National Labor Relations Act
National Labor Union
New Deal coalition
New Politics (magazine)
Opposition Party
Party leader
Party line (politics)
Party system
Patronage
Policy
Political agenda
Political alliance
Political campaign
Political class
Political climate
Political culture
Political economy
Political faction
Political machine
Political methodology
Political movement
Political opportunity
Political Order in Changing Societies
Political party
Political science
Political sociology
Political spectrum
Political structure
Political system
Politician
Politics
Politics of the United States
Populism
Posse Comitatus (organization)
Power broker (politics)
Radicalism (historical)
Realigning election
Regime
Second Party System
Spoils system
State government
State-building
Syndicalism
Tax
The Political Machine
The Political Process
The Public Interest
Trade union
Trasformismo
Voting
Product details
- ISBN 9780691000442
- Weight: 454g
- Dimensions: 197 x 254mm
- Publication Date: 16 Jan 1994
- Publisher: Princeton University Press
- Publication City/Country: US
- Product Form: Paperback
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This book collects a number of Martin Shefter's most important articles on political parties. They address three questions: Under what conditions will strong party organizations emerge? What influences the character of parties--in particular, their reliance on patronage? In what circumstances will the parties that formerly dominated politics in a nation or city come under attack? Shefter's work exemplifies the "new institutionalism" in political science, arguing that the reliance of parties on patronage is a function not so much of mass political culture as of their relationship with public bureaucracies. The book's opening chapters analyze the circumstances conducive to the emergence of strong political parties and the changing balance between parties and bureaucracies in Europe and America. The middle chapters discuss the organization and exclusion of the American working classes by machine and reform regimes. The book concludes by examining party organizations as instruments of political control in the largest American city, New York.
Martin Shefter is Professor of Government at Cornell University. He is author of Political Crisis/Fiscal Crisis: The Collapse and Revival of New York City (Columbia), co-author, with Benjamin Ginsberg, of Politics by Other Means: The Declining Importance of Elections in America (Basic Books), and editor of Capital of the American Century: The National and International Influence of New York City (Russell Sage).
