Political Parties and Political Mobilization

Authors

  • M. Margaret Conway

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https://doi.org/10.15763/issn.2374-7781.1993.14.0.549-563

Abstract

One of the tales told about American political parties is that Thomas Jefferson and James Madison, desiring to create an institution uniting sup-porters of their beliefs about the means and ends of government, set off from their Virginia plantations on what was described to inquisitive journalists as an expedition to gather botanical specimens. Instead of collecting specimens, however, they are alleged to have created the original specimen of the modern political party.

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1994-01-01

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