List of Tables and Figures

Prologue

Acknowledgments

From ``Essential to the Existence of Our Institutions'' to ``Rapacious Enemies of Honest and Responsible Government''. The Rise and Fall of American Political Parties, 1790-2000

Joel H. Silbey

State Party Organizations: Strengthened and Adapting to Candidate-Centered Politics and Nationalization

John F. Bibby

National Party Organizations at the Dawn of the Twenty-First Century

Paul S. Herrnson

Party Identification and the Electorate at the Start of the Twenty-First Century

Warren E. Miller

Kenneth Goldstein

Mark Jones

Competing for Attention and Votes: The Role of State Parties in Setting Presidential Nomination Rules

Bruce E. Cain

Megan Mullin

The Party Role in Congressional Competition

L. Sandy Maisel

Cherie Maestas

Walter J. Stone

Following the (Soft) Money: Party Advertisements in American Elections

Michael Franz

Kenneth Goldstein

Political Parties in the Era of Soft Money

Ray La Raja

Political Parties in the Media: Where Elephants and Donkeys Are Pigs

Matthew Robert Kerbel

Congressional Parties and the Policy Process

Barbara Sinclair

Governing by Coalition: Policymaking in the U.S. Congress

David W. Brady

Kara Z. Buckley

Partisan Presidential Leadership: The President's Appointees

G. Calvin Mackenzie

Subtle Shifts, Dramatic Days: What the Plate Tectonics of American Politics Say About the Country and Its Future

David M. Shribman

References

About the Editor and Contributors

Index