This latest addition to the Institute's Political Parties and Democracy in Theoretical and Practical Perspectives series describes some of the approaches that political parties around the world have used to fulfill their policy formulation role. The first section describes comparative approaches in developing party ideologies, rules, structures, and processes that can improve policy processes. In the second section, 12 case studies provide overviews of practical experiences in party policy development around the world.
Party Influence in Congress challenges current arguments and evidence about the influence of political parties in the U.S. Congress. Steven S. Smith argues that theory must reflect policy, electoral, and collective party goals.
When a very ambitious young Democratic judge in Alabama , George Wallace , ran as a moderate for governor in 1958 , he spurned support from the Ku Klux Klan and was endorsed by the NAACP . He lost to a candidate who ran a very ugly ...
The Party's Just Begun: Shaping Political Parties for America's Future
Haughey insisted on an open roll - call vote and won by fiftyeight to twenty - two , but two ministers , Desmond O'Malley and Martin O'Donoghue , left the government rather than vote for him , and his opponents clair.ed that they and ...
Tweed, Sweeny, and Hall, now alarmed by the disclosuresinthe Times, decided to make Connolly the scapegoat, and asked the aldermen and supervisors to appoint a committee to examine his accounts. By the timethecommittee appearedfor ...
22. The Washington Post , September 13 , 1978. The comment was made by Senator Wendell R. Anderson ( D. , Minn . ) to columnist David S. Broder . 23. The Washington Post , September 13 , 1978 . 24. Arthur H. Miller , “ Rejoinder to ...
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