TY  - BOOK
AU  - Shafer,Byron E.
TI  - Bifurcated Politics: Evolution and Reform in the National Party Convention 
T2  - A Russell Sage Foundation Study
SN  - 9780674421615
AV  - JK2255 
U1  - 324.5/6/0973 
PY  - 2013///]
CY  - Cambridge, MA : 
PB  - Harvard University Press, 
KW  - Congrès politiques
KW  - Parteitag
KW  - Political conventions
KW  - Politik
KW  - Democratic National Convention
KW  - POLITICAL SCIENCE / General
KW  - Political conventions -- United States
KW  - Republican National Convention
KW  - bisacsh
N1  - Frontmatter --; Contents --; Introduction. National Party Conventions in American Politics: The Attractions of the Convention --; 1. The Nomination and the Convention: An Informal Disappearance --; 2. Institutionalizing the Disappearance: The Nomination after Reform --; 3. Changing Contours of Delegate Selection: The Decline of the Official Party --; 4. The Rise of the Organized Interests: An Alternative Base for Delegate Selection --; 5. The Convention and the Election: The Structure of Conflict inside the Hall --; 6. Recurring Struggles over Tangible Products: Traditional Activities in the Reformed Convention --; 7. The Struggle over the Mediated Convention: Televised Coverage and Public Perception --; 8. Coverage Levels and Institutional Character: The Coming of the Bifurcated Convention --; Conclusion. Evolution and Reform: The Convention and a Changing American Politics --; Afterword Evolution. and Reform beyond 1988: The Future of the National Party Convention --; Notes --; Acknowledgments and Project History --; Index; restricted access
N2  - 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, which is created and dispersed within a handful of days but nevertheless becomes a self-contained world for participants, reporters, and observers alike. He analyzes such dramatic developments as the disappearance of the contest over the presidential nomination and its replacement by struggles over the publicizing of various campaigns, the decline of party officials and the rise of the organized interests, and the large and growing disjunction between what is happening at the convention hall and what the public sees—between the convention on site and the convention on screen. He argues that, despite its declining status, the postwar convention has attracted—and mirrored—most of the major developments in postwar politics: the nationalization of that politics and the spread of procedural reform, a changing connection between the general public and political institutions, even the coming of a new and different sort of American politics. Bifurcated Politics tells the story of most of the postwar conventions, along with the nominating campaigns that preceded them. But it also develops a picture of the changing American politics around those stories. It will become the definitive study of the national party convention
UR  - https://doi.org/10.4159/harvard.9780674421622
UR  - https://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9780674421622
UR  - https://www.degruyter.com/document/cover/isbn/9780674421622/original
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