American Political Parties Under Pressure Strategic Adaptations for a Changing Electorate /

• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Other Authors: Rackaway, Chapman (Editor, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/edt), Rice, Laurie L. (Editor, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/edt)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan, 2018.
• Edition: 1st ed. 2018.
• Subjects: United States-Politics and government.; Political sociology.; US Politics.; Political Sociology.

This book addresses the changing electoral and political circumstances in which American political parties found themselves during the 2016 election, and the strategic adaptations this new pressure may require. The respective establishments of both major political parties have found themselves facin...

Table of Contents:

• 1. Introduction: Turning Lemons into Lemonade? Party Strategy as Compensation for External Stresses
• 2.This Is Trump Country: Donald Trump's Base and Partisan Change in Unhyphenated America
• 3. Parties and Populism in 2016
• 4. From Consensus to Conflict: Political Polarization, the Culture War and Gay Rights
• 5. Ideology and the 2016 Election
• 6. Campaign Visits, Party Ties, and Challenges to the Party Establishment in Presidential Nominating Contests
• 7. Weak Parties and Strong Partisans
• 8. Conclusion the Paradox of Partisanship in 2016 and Beyond. .