Title Primary elections and American politics : the unintended consequences of Progressive era reform / Chapman Rackaway and Joseph Romance

Published [Albany] : State University of New York Press, [2022] ©2022

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Description 1 online resource (256 pages) Contents Intro -- Contents -- Chapter 1 Making Parties into Machines -- The Tale of Eric Cantor -- What Is Democracy? -- The Direct Primary in America -- The Accidental Nature of Parties -- Parties and Democracy -- Chapter 2 Parties Ascendant -- Creating a Political Party without a Model -- Contra Parties: A Brief and Futile Attempt -- Parties at the Beginning -- The First Party Organizations -- The Populist Turn -- State and Local Party Development -- Rise of the Machines -- Machines Overpower Democracy -- Change Comes to the Machine -- Chapter 3 What the Progressives Were For The World the Progressives Faced -- Political Parties and Corruption -- The Progressive Conception of Politics -- Progressive Disruption -- Progressives' Democratic Mistakes -- Chapter 4 Why the Machines Were Targeted -- The Progressive Zeal for a Better Society -- The Democratic Ideal -- Progressives, Community, and the Parties -- The March to Direct Primaries -- The Pace of Politics and the Role of Compromise -- White Primaries: The South's Racist Experiment -- What the Early Primaries Were Like -- Conclusion -- Chapter 5 The Early Primary Era Democracy, Conventions and the Chairman's Problem -- Critics of the Conventions -- Conventions and Primaries-The Hybrid System -- A Settled Peace-Primaries and Conventions -- Primaries and Conventions: Balancing Ideology and Winning -- Conclusion: A Working System -- Chapter 6 The Pivotal 1968 Democratic National Convention -- Democrats and Democracy in Turmoil -- Reforming the Democratic Party (and Everything Else): The McGovern-Fraser Commission -- Chapter 7 What Direct Primaries Have Done -- Disruption and Decline -- Taking the Parties Out -- Effects on the Parties -- The "Meaningless" Party The Party in Government Retreats -- Weakening the Party Organization -- Electoral Partisanship Morphs and Declines -- The Twentieth-Century Decline of Parties -- Chapter 8 The Problem with Primaries -- The Joe Lieberman Conundrum -- Primaries and Polarization -- A Polarized Public -- Negative Partisanship -- Open Versus Closed Primaries -- Turnout -- Legislative Polarization -- Mediated Polarization -- Campaign Spending -- A New Model of Campaign-Driven Polarization -- Chapter 9 Conclusion -- The Purposes of the Nomination Process -- 1. A Good Candidate -- 2. Democratic Legitimacy 3. A Good President -- 4. Peer Review -- What Is to Be Done? -- 1. Strengthening the Parties -- 2. Helping Voters -- 3. Ending the Party Duopoly -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index Summary Argues that Progressive Era reforms had the counterintuitive effect of weakening political parties and their role in representative government Notes Description based upon print version of record Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index Subject Progressivism (United States politics) -- History Representative government and representation -- United States -- History Primaries -- United States -- History Political parties -- United States -- History POLITICAL SCIENCE / American Government / General. Political parties Primaries Progressivism (United States politics) Representative government and representation United States Genre/Form History Form Electronic book Author Romance, Joseph, 1966- author. LC no. 2022006889 ISBN 9781438490595 1438490593

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