Bifurcated Politics: Evolution and Reform in the National Party Convention

by Byron E. Shafer

Even today, when it is often viewed as an institution in decline, the national party convention retains a certain raw, emotional, populist fascination. Bifurcated Politics is a portrait of the postwar convention as a changing institution--a changing institution that still confirms the single most important decision in American politics. With the 1988 elections clearly in mind, Byron E. Shafer examines the status of the national party convention,...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0674421612
• ISBN13: 9780674421615
• Release Date: February 1988
• Publisher: Harvard University Press
• Length: 391 Pages
• Weight: 1.62 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.1" x 9.2"