North Carolina: The Development of Party Organizations in a Competitive Environment
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https://doi.org/10.15763/issn.2374-7781.2003.24.0.145-164Abstract
Activists in the two political parties have moved further apart over the past ten years. They already were ideologically distinct in 1991, but since then the Republicans have become even more conservative and the Democrats have moved in a liberal direction. Also, Democratic activists now have a substantially higher percentage of blacks and women in their ranks than was the case in 1991. Both parties have become somewhat more cohesive than they were in 1991, although both organizations still contain conflict and factions, with the Democrats being somewhat more divided than the Republicans. Among Democrats, the tensions involved in keeping their biracial coalition together can be stressful. Among Republicans, the split between Christian Right conservatives and others is the most obvious deep division. Both parties appear to be stronger organizations now than a decade ago. In particular, the activists report higher levels of organizational activity and the two parties seem fairly evenly matched in grassroots organizational strength at this point in time.References
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