Library Catalog
Amazon cover image
Image from Amazon.com

Party Campaigning in the 1980s / Paul S. Herrnson.

By: Material type: TextTextPublisher: Cambridge, MA : Harvard University Press, [2013]Copyright date: ©1988Edition: Reprint 2014Description: 1 online resource (176 p.) : Zahlr. AbbContent type:
Media type:
Carrier type:
ISBN:
  • 9780674418523
  • 9780674418530
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 324.273
LOC classification:
  • JK2265
Other classification:
  • online - DeGruyter
Online resources:
Contents:
Frontmatter -- Preface -- Contents -- Introduction -- Chapter 1. Two Traditional Conceptions of Parties as Campaigners -- Chapter 2. Institutionalized National Parties -- Chapter 3. Party Campaigning from the Washington Perspective -- Chapter 4. Party Campaigning as Perceived by the Candidates -- Chapter 5. Prospects for the Parties -- Appendixes. Notes. Bibliography. Index. -- Appendix A. Methodology -- Appendix Β. Congressional Campaign Survey Questionnaire -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index
Summary: Are American political parties on the way out? Political action committees (PACs) currently compete with parties for influence over candidates and voters; persuading a more independent and volatile electorate requires new tactics; technological innovations afford more sophisticated means to appeal for support. Many political observers express doubts about the ability of political parties to adapt to these changes and to survive, but Paul Herrnson instead suggests their survival and resurgence in this balanced assessment of party activities in congressional elections. Drawing on extensive interviews and survey data collected from nearly five hundred recent House and Senate candidates, campaign advisers, party officials, PAC executives, and journalists, Herrnson evaluates the roles of the national parties. He finds that from the perspective of party executives, they provide important campaign services and function as the key brokers between candidates, PACs, and other campaigners. For PAC officials, the national parties serve as important sources of strategic campaign information and cues for decision-making. For the candidates themselves, their parties function as appendages and accessories to their own campaign organizations. Herrnson provides rich detail on party development and party campaign activity to predict the future of congressional elections and of the party-in-government and the party-in-the-electorate. Political practitioners as well as scholars will welcome this fresh, new contribution to a significant political controversy.
Holdings
Item type Current library Call number URL Status Notes Barcode
eBook eBook Biblioteca "Angelicum" Pont. Univ. S.Tommaso d'Aquino Nuvola online online - DeGruyter (Browse shelf(Opens below)) Online access Not for loan (Accesso limitato) Accesso per gli utenti autorizzati / Access for authorized users (dgr)9780674418530

Frontmatter -- Preface -- Contents -- Introduction -- Chapter 1. Two Traditional Conceptions of Parties as Campaigners -- Chapter 2. Institutionalized National Parties -- Chapter 3. Party Campaigning from the Washington Perspective -- Chapter 4. Party Campaigning as Perceived by the Candidates -- Chapter 5. Prospects for the Parties -- Appendixes. Notes. Bibliography. Index. -- Appendix A. Methodology -- Appendix Β. Congressional Campaign Survey Questionnaire -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index

restricted access online access with authorization star

http://purl.org/coar/access_right/c_16ec

Are American political parties on the way out? Political action committees (PACs) currently compete with parties for influence over candidates and voters; persuading a more independent and volatile electorate requires new tactics; technological innovations afford more sophisticated means to appeal for support. Many political observers express doubts about the ability of political parties to adapt to these changes and to survive, but Paul Herrnson instead suggests their survival and resurgence in this balanced assessment of party activities in congressional elections. Drawing on extensive interviews and survey data collected from nearly five hundred recent House and Senate candidates, campaign advisers, party officials, PAC executives, and journalists, Herrnson evaluates the roles of the national parties. He finds that from the perspective of party executives, they provide important campaign services and function as the key brokers between candidates, PACs, and other campaigners. For PAC officials, the national parties serve as important sources of strategic campaign information and cues for decision-making. For the candidates themselves, their parties function as appendages and accessories to their own campaign organizations. Herrnson provides rich detail on party development and party campaign activity to predict the future of congressional elections and of the party-in-government and the party-in-the-electorate. Political practitioners as well as scholars will welcome this fresh, new contribution to a significant political controversy.

Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.

In English.

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 24. Aug 2021)