Janda The Republican Evolution

From Governing Party to Antigovernment Party, 1860–2020
1. Auflage 2022
ISBN: 978-0-231-55716-0
Verlag: De Gruyter
Format: EPUB
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E-Book, Englisch

Kenneth Janda sheds new light on the Republican Party’s transformations, drawing on a wide range of quantitative and qualitative evidence. He examines nearly three thousand planks from every Republican platform since 1856 as well as candidate statements and historical sources.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Janda, Kenneth

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Politische Systeme Politische Parteien
• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Politische Ideologien Liberalismus, Libertarismus
• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Politikwissenschaft Allgemein Politische Theorie, Politische Philosophie
• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Politische Ideologien Konservativismus
• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Politikwissenschaft Allgemein Politische Geschichte

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Preface
Introduction
Part I: Political Parties and Principles
1. Political Parties
2. Government Benefits
3. Party Platforms and Principles
Part II: Republican Party Planks
4. Beyond Liberal and Conservative
5. Republican Platform Planks Since 1856
Part III: Principles of Republicanism
6. Original Principles
7. Financing Government
8. Economic Affairs
9. Law and Order
10. Culture and Order
11. Conservation and Conservatives
12. Elections
13. Evolving to Ethnocentrism
Part IV: Republicans as Team, Tribe, and Cult
14. Electoral Teams
15. The Political Tribe
16. The Personality Cult
Part V: Republican Restoration
17. The Party in Peril
18. A Republican Epiphany
Epilogue: The Next Republican Era
Appendix A: Validating the Coding
Appendix B: Accounting for All 2,722 Republican Platform Planks
Acknowledgments
Notes
Bibliography
Index

Über Autor(innen)

Kenneth Janda is Payson S. Wild Professor Emeritus of Political Science at Northwestern University. He is the author or coauthor of numerous books, including the textbook The Challenge of Democracy: American Government in Global Politics (fifteenth edition, 2021), and he was coeditor of the journal Party Politics for two decades. Janda received the Samuel J. Eldersveld Lifetime Achievement Award for his work on political parties and the Frank J. Goodnow Award for service to the discipline, both from the American Political Science Association.