| Description |
240 pages ; 24 cm |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographies. |
| Contents |
Part I. Do elections matter? -- Elections, liberty, and the consequences of consent / Benjamin Ginsberg -- When elections really matter : Realignments and changes in public policy / David W. Brady and Joseph Stewart, Jr. -- Political parties and regulation / Richard Barke and Alan Stone -- The impact of the Voting Rights Act on Southern welfare systems / Richard Bensel and Elizabeth Sanders -- Part II. The new politics and the meaning of elections -- The best Congress money can buy : Campaign contributions and congressional behavior / Benjamin Ginsberg and John C. Green -- Candidate appeals and the meaning of elections / Richard A. Joslyn -- Primary elections and the evanescence of third party activity in the United States / Peter F. Galderisi and Benjamin Ginsberg -- Part III. Contemporary political forces and the meaning of elections -- The new feminist politics / Laura L. Vertz -- The new religious right and the 1980 congressional elections / Loch Johnson and Charles S. Bullock, III -- Elites and elections, or what have they done to you lately? / Thomas Ferguson -- Part IV. Did the 1984 election matter? -- Institutionalizing the Reagan regime / Martin Shefter and Benjamin Ginsberg -- The Democratic Party and the conflict over racial policy / Robert Weissberg -- The Reagan revolution meets the regulatory labyrinth / Jeremy Rabkin. |
| Subject |
Elections.
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Voting.
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Political parties.
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Public policy (Law)
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| Indexed Term |
Political parties |
| Added Author |
Ginsberg, Benjamin.
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Stone, Alan, 1931-
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| ISBN |
0873323785 |
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0873323793 (paperback) |
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