Political scientists tend to assume that the party organizations at the state and local levels are in decline and possibly on the verge of extinction. In this study, the authors conclude that the parties as organizaitons are in good shape today, and stronger than they were twenty years ago.

Party Organizations in American Politics (Praeger Special Studies in American Political Parties and Elections)

Politics & Social Sciences

Gibson, James L.

Cotter, Cornelius P.

Politics & Government

Praeger Pub Text

Powers Of The President During Crises (Da Capo Press Reprints in American Constitutional and Legal History)

Smith, J. Malcolm

Da Capo Press

Contradicting the conventional political wisdom of the 1970s, which said state political parties were dormant and verging upon extinction, this book reveals that state party organizations actually grew stronger in the 1960s and 1970s.Reprinted with a new preface that covers changes in the 1980s in electoral politics, Party Organizations in American Politics encourages a reappraisal of scholarly treatment of party organization in political science. 

Party Organizations in American Politics (Pitt Series in Policy and Institutional Studies)

Bibby, John F.

Huckshorn, Robert J.

University of Pittsburgh Press

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