Book by ware, alan (author) ; ware (author)

Product Description: This book is about the many organizations in Britain and the United States which are neither legally attached to the state nor permitted to distribute any profits they earn. These "intermediate organizations" include charities, churches, famine relief agencies, nonstate universities, credit unions, and social clubs...read more

Product Description: Manchester 1989. Octavo, 260pp., index, hardcover. VG in VG DJ.

Product Description: A historical, social and political study of government in the USA - based principally on extracts and essays from political journals. This work covers many aspects in depth, from specific issues - race, ethnicity, gender - to more general topics - Federalism and the dynamics of the party system...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

This book examines the dynamics of the American party system and explores how contemporary American politics was formed. Specifically, it asks how the Democrats could become sufficiently competitive in the American North as to be able to construct a national political majority. It rejects the conventional account, based on 'realignment theory', that between the end of Reconstruction and the Civil Rights Revolution, the base level of support for the Democratic party varied greatly from one era to another. Instead, by distinguishing between the 'building blocks' available to the Democrats in coalition formation and the aggregation of those 'blocks' into an actual coalition, the author shows that there was much less variation over time in the available 'blocks' than is usually argued. Neither the economic depression of 1893 nor the New Deal had the impact on the party system that most political scientists claim.

Product Description: This is the first major study of the origins of direct primary elections in the U.S. since the 1920s. It rejects the widely held view that primaries resulted from a conflict between anti-party reformers and so-called party "regulars...read more