Understanding Political Parties: Back to Basics

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  • Joseph A. Schlesinger

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.15763/issn.2374-7781.1993.14.0.481-496

Abstract

For American political parties these are the best of times and the worst of times. The major parties dominate elective office to a degree seldom seen in American history. More than ever before, their official organizations are well staffed, they exist at all levels of government, and they operate continuously between elections. By any measure of substantive activity the parties today are at their peak. Moreover, the two parties compete with each other throughout the country more evenly than ever before. In government the two parties have never in this century voted more cohesively.

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1994-01-01

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