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Author Rapoport, Ronald.

Title Three's a crowd : the dynamic of third parties, Ross Perot, & Republican resurgence / Ronald B. Rapoport & Walter J. Stone
Published Ann Arbor : University of Michigan Press, [2008]

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Contents Introduction : the dynamic of third parties -- A theory of third-party support and major-party change -- The rise and fall of Ross Perot and the Reform Party, 1992-2000 -- Was there an issue constituency for Perot? -- Explaining support for Perot -- The decline in support for Perot -- The major party bid for the Perot constituency -- Perot and the Republican resurgence, 1994-2000 -- The mobilization effects of Perot activity -- The impact of Perot on the Republican Party's issue positions -- Conclusion : third parties and political change in America
Summary "For those wanting someone to blame for the Republican resurgence that began with the 1994 congressional elections, Rapoport and Stone have an answer: blame the third-party presidential candidacies of H. Ross Perot in 1992 and 1996. They argue that successful third parties at the presidential level have the opportunity to have a substantial impact on the two-party system. The common analogy is that a third party is like a bee: it stings and then dies. The sting hurts one of the major parties. If a third party has a large and identifiable issue constituency, ensuring the major parties' bid for the support of its members, and if the party that 'wins' the third-party supporters is changed, then the 'dynamic of third parties' has contributed to the continued evolution of the American party system. Third parties, as the authors note, appear only when there is unhappiness with one or both of the two major parties. The authors have produced a near-mountain of empirical evidence to support their dynamic of third-parties theory. Summing up: Recommended. General readers, lower-division undergraduates through faculty."--W.K. Hall, Bradley University -- Choice, October 2006
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Notes English
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Subject Perot, Ross, 1930-2019.
SUBJECT Perot, Ross, 1930-2019 fast
Subject Republican Party (U.S. : 1854- )
SUBJECT Republican Party (U.S. : 1854- ) fast
Subject Political parties -- United States.
POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Political Process -- Political Parties.
Political parties
United States
Form Electronic book
Author Stone, Walter J.
LC no. 2020707001
ISBN 9780472026159
0472026151
1283044439
9781283044431
9786613044433
6613044431