1st Edition
Politics without Power The National Party Committees
Edited By Bernard C. Hennessy
Copyright 1964
256 Pages
by
Routledge
256 Pages
by
Routledge
256 Pages
by
Routledge
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The national committees of the major political parties in the United States are symbols of party government. They carry forward a national heritage of peaceful change in national politics and administration. National committees are substitutes for party ideologies, yet they are pretty much headless, drifting organizations. Cotter and Hennessy explain why this is the case, arguing that the... Read more
1: What Are the National Party Committees?; 2: Development and Organization of the National Party Committees; 3: National Committee Members: Who and Why; 4: The National Party Chairmen: Responsibility without Power; 5: The National Party Chairmen: In-Party and Out-Party; 6: National Conventions and Campaign Organizations; 7: Public Relations, Research, and Patronage; 8: Groups and the National Committees; 9: Financing the National Committees; 10: The Republican National Committee and Party Policy, 1920-1963; 11: The Democratic Advisory Council; 12: The National Committees and Party Government
Biography
Bernard C. Hennessy
