...The most serious criticism of the Commission on Presidential Debates (CPD) is that it conspires with the major parties to deny candidates other than the Republican and Democratic nominees the opportunity to participate in the debates. Having exhausted their legal arguments before the Federal...

... of the Reorganized National Government (RNG). Wang and Chen planned to use the Japanese to defeat Jiang and regain leadership over the Nationalist Party and the nation. Their ideas of nation and nationalism became completely discredited in the postwar years, becoming exclusively identified with collaboration...

... third-party authorization in all nonexigent circumstances. The chapter also shows that the post-Warren Court's application of the balancing analysis has attributed far too much weight to the government's interests and far too little to the individual's. proportionality principle camera public...

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...This chapter examines how youth Participatory Action Research Team for Youth (PARTY) members and prospective PARTY members from Jackson High School interacted with the “discourse of these kids.” It shows how youth participants mobilized, reproduced, and contested the discourse of these kids...

...This chapter explores where cross-party friendships can help to bridge the partisan divide. Using both observational and experimental data, it shows that most Americans—more than 8 in 10—do have friendships that cross the partisan divide. Further, these friendships do work to reduce partisan...

.... Translating the majority of Spinoza’s works and authoring a general introduction, Stern derived from Spinoza an ethics of natural necessity that he saw as in alignment with the scientific socialism of Marx, Engels, and the German Social Democratic Party. Combatting the growing popularity of other philosophies...

...This chapter reviews theories of party identification to assess the president’s potential for influencing partisan attachments. It provides evidence that popular assessments of the president’s performance influence both individual and mass partisanship, but when reactions to a president push...

... ordinary Democrats and Republicans. Although Trump executed a hostile takeover of the Republican Party and continues to attract vigorous criticism from many of its luminaries, his impact during his first year in office on how people view his party has been at least as large as that of previous presidents...

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... between the state and the individual. Moreover, the Socialist Party of America (SPA)—in conversation with the variety of competing socialist and anarchist voices—struggled with questions of transformative strategy and inclusive membership. Activists developed sophisticated accounts of how to engage...

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...While too much factionalism hinders party adaptation, this chapter shows that giving no room to factions also weakens a party’s ability to adapt. Since the 1960s, Austria’s People’s Party (ÖVP) has identified the need to reform their organization and platform. However, despite an extended stay...

...The conclusion summarizes the book's main findings, evaluates the extent to which they support the book's argument compared to alternative explanations, and discusses their implications for the comparative study of party change, party organization, factionalism, and institutional development...

...This chapter examines the extent to which party conflict in the U.S. Congress can be attributed to the dynamics of competitive team play rather than to ideological disagreement. Drawing on conventional understandings of liberalism and conservatism in contemporary American politics, the chapter...

...This chapter considers how U.S. senators strategically deploy “good government” causes not only to enhance their own party's reputation but also to undermine that of the opposition. Measures of good government — such as policies to streamline government, encourage fiscal responsibility, fight...

...This chapter looks at the partisan politics of floor procedure in the Senate, an important source of party conflict. Here the majority party wants to focus debate on its party “message,” while the minority party would like to change the subject to other issues. Moreover, the outcome of procedural...

...Ideology does not matter in congressional politics only insofar as individual members have personal beliefs that lead them to take predictable positions. Both Democrats and Republicans have an interest in focusing debate on issues that unify their party internally and that distinguish them from...

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...Part II of the book, consisting of four chapters, evaluates the state of the party system in the South, generally in comparison with the North, in four historical periods. In doing so, we follow Key’s tripartite conception of the three spheres of party activity—party in government, party...