1. Introduction: distilling their frenzy from some academic scribbler -- 2. The coalition merchants: ideologies, parties, and their interaction -- 3. Creative synthesis: why ideology? -- 4. The independent development of ideology -- 5. Ideology remakes the parties -- 6. Issue politics in ideological context -- 7. Polarized parties -- 8. Conclusion: toward the study of creative synthesis
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 197-211) and index