1st Edition

The National Party Chairmen and Committees Factionalism at the Top

By Andrew Goldman Copyright 1991
672 Pages
by Routledge

672 Pages
by Routledge

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... Read more
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.

Biography

Goldman, Andrew