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Chapter 11: Political Parties
Chapter Outline
Why Do Political Parties Form?
- To Facilitate Collective Action in the Electoral Process
- To Resolve Collective Choice in the Policy-Making Process
- To Deal with the Problem of Ambition
What Functions Do Parties Perform?
- Recruiting Candidates
- Nominating Candidates
- Getting Out the Vote
- Facilitating Mass Electoral Choice
- Influencing National Government
Parties and the Electorate
- Group Affiliations
ANALYZING THE EVIDENCE: Is Partisanship in Decline?
Party Systems
- The First Party System: Federalists and Democratic-Republicans
- The Second Party System: Democrats and Whigs
- The Third Party System: Republicans and Democrats, 1860-96
- The Fourth Party System, 1896-1932
- The Fifth Party System: The New Deal Coalition, 1932-68
- The Sixth Party System?
- American Third Parties
The Role of Parties Today
- High-Tech Politics and the Rise of Candidate-Centered and
- Capital-Intensive Politics
- Labor-Intensive to Capital-Intensive Politics
- Contemporary Party Organizations
- The Contemporary Party as Service Provider to Candidates
- Parties and Democracy
Summary
For Further Reading
APPLYING THE PRINCIPLES: POLITICS IN THE NEWS