Understanding American Political Parties: Democratic Ideals, Political Uncertainty, and Strategic Positioning

by Jeffrey M. Stonecash

Book Overview

How do parties respond to the electorate and craft winning strategies? In the abstract parties are the vehicles to make democracy work, but it is often difficult to see the process working as well as we think it might. Indeed, voters often struggle to see parties as the valuable vehicles of representation that so many academics describe. There is a clear discrepancy between the ideal expressed in many textbooks and the reality that we see playing...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0415508436
• ISBN13: 9780415508438
• Release Date: September 2012
• Publisher: Routledge
• Length: 136 Pages
• Weight: 0.55 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.4" x 6.1" x 9.0"