| Details | | Publication Date: | 1998-09-01 | | Edition Description: | Illustrated |
| Size | | Length: | 337 pages | | Height: | 9.5 in | | Width: | 6.5 in | | Thickness: | 1.0 in | | Weight: | 24.0 oz |
Publisher's Note
This book challenges traditional notions of American party politics and political culture. Usually, American politics is looked upon as relatively consensual and nonideological. Professor Gerring argues, instead, that the major parties have articulated views that were coherent, differentiated, and stable. American party history, and by extension American political history at-large, has been irreducibly ideological. The argument rests on evidence provided by election rhetoric - speeches, party platforms, and other campaign tracts disseminated by party leaders during presidential campaigns. With these texts Professor Gerring traces the values, beliefs, and issue-positions which have defined party life from the 1830s to the 1990s. Party Ideologies in America, 1828-1996 thus presents an historical synthesis of mainstream party politics from the birth of competitive parties to the present day.
Chapter Contents Part I. Introduction: 1. Argument; 2. Rethinking the ideology debate; Part II. The Whig-Republican Party: 3. The national epoch (1828-1924); 4. The neoliberal epoch (1928-1992); Part III. The Democratic Party: 5. The Jeffersonian epoch (1828-1892); 6. The populist epoch (1896-1948); 7. The universalist epoch (1952-1992); Part IV. Conclusion: 8. What drives ideology change?; 9. Does ideology matter?; Epilogue.
Industry Reviews
"Without a whiff of jargon, and with a good deal of wit, Gerring marries the study of 'discourse' to the study of political power."
Lingua Franca - Michael Kazin (09/20/2001)
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