The National Party Chairmen and Committees
Factionalism at the Top
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The National Party Chairmen and Committees: Factionalism at the Top
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This study traces the history of the national committee chairmanships of the two major political parties in the United States, emphasizing the national conventions and presidential campaigns - where national factions often reveal themselves. Candidate and ideolological factionalism, as the evidence of this volume demonstrates, has been the principal engine of convention action. Factional conflicts have had consequences not just for the political parties but for the party system itself. The institutional history of the two national committees and their chairmanships reveals a previously unrecorded aspect of United States national party development.
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In the beginning; disintegration and re-integration; stabilizing the pinnacle; destruction by faction; formalizing the national charmanship; bureaucratizing the national committee; the long view - processes and problems.
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Goldman, Andrew