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| Author | : Kimberly H. Conger |
| Publisher | : |
| Total Pages | : |
| Release | : 2003 |
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Abstract: One of the most important phenomena in contemporary American politics has been the development of the political Christian Right. Many scholars have made significant contributions to our understanding of both the origin and development of the national movement and the unique situations in individual states and their Republican parties. However, few have sought a theoretical explanation for the variation we see across states. My dissertation develops and tests, using quantitative and qualitative data, a theory of the varying influence of the Christian Right in state level Republican parties that focuses on the most important ingredients for Christian Right influence. Building on an elite 3political observer4 survey conducted after the 2000 election, I create a useful measure of the Christian Right2s influence in all fifty states and find that the characteristics of the Christian Right in the state, primarily the quality of movement leadership, have the most impact on the potency of that influence. Then, utilizing a rigorous case study methodology, I combine publicly available state-level data with face-to-face in-depth interviews of party and movement elites from several states to gain a comprehensive and contextual understanding on the relationship between the Christian Right and the Republican party in that state. Complementing scholars2 understanding of the interplay between social movements and political parties, two major conclusions are presented. First, the structures of the Republican party and state politics have a significant impact on the Christian Right's ability to gain access to the party organization. Second, the character of the Christian Right movement in a state, based upon extensive Evangelical and conservative social networks and grassroots political activity, greatly determines the effectiveness with which the movement can promote its policy goals.
| Author | : Dana Fisher |
| Publisher | : Stanford University Press |
| Total Pages | : 180 |
| Release | : 2006-07-26 |
| Genre | : Political Science |
| ISBN | : 9780804767781 |
Activism, Inc. introduces America to an increasingly familiar political actor: the canvasser. She's the twenty-something with the clipboard, stopping you on the street or knocking on your door, the foot soldier of political campaigns. Granted unprecedented access to the "People's Project," an unknown yet influential organization driving left-leaning grassroots politics, Dana Fisher tells the true story of outsourcing politics in America. Like the major corporations that outsourced their customer service to companies abroad, the grassroots campaigns of national progressive movements—including Greenpeace, the Sierra Club, Save the Children, and the Human Rights Campaign—have been outsourced at different times to this single organization. During the 2004 presidential campaign, the Democratic Party followed a similar outsourcing model for their canvassing. Fisher examines the history and rationale behind political outsourcing on the Left, weaving together frank interviews with canvassers, high-ranking political officials across the political spectrum, and People's Project management. She compares all of this to the grassroots efforts on the Right, which remain firmly grounded in communities and local politics. This book offers a chilling review of the consequences of political outsourcing. Connecting local people on the streets throughout America to the national organizations and political campaigns that make up progressive politics, it shows what happens to the passionate young activists outsourced to the clients of Activism, Inc.
| Author | : Pérez Bentancur Pérez |
| Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
| Total Pages | : 215 |
| Release | : 2019-10-24 |
| Genre | : Political Science |
| ISBN | : 110848526X |
Explores the value of an organization-centered approach to understanding parties and their role in democratic representation.
| Author | : Donald E. Blake |
| Publisher | : UBC Press |
| Total Pages | : 166 |
| Release | : 2011-11-01 |
| Genre | : Political Science |
| ISBN | : 0774842946 |
Grassroots Politicians is the first systematic account of party activists at the provincial level in Canada. To understand the pattern of political polarization in British Columbia, the authors examine the values and beliefs of those at the party cores -- the people behind the party images who elect leaders, nominate candidates, and work in electoral campaigns. In the New Democratic Party they play a crucial role in determining policy, in the Social Credit they help to shape party direction and governing style by their choice of leader, and, among the Liberals, they form the small band that keeps the party alive in the province. The authors challenge the view that Social Credit is a homogeneously right-wing party and that the New Democrats have clearly opted for the political centre. They record how party profiles have changed over the years -- Social Credit activists becoming better educated, wealthier, and less diverse in terms of ties to national parties, while the NDP is now more middle-class, white collar, and professional. They explore such questions as why individuals stay in a weak party like the B.C. Liberals, how the New Democrats interpret successive Social Credit victories, and to what extent B.C. activists are similar to those in other provinces or in national parties. They offer an analysis of the leadership selection process in each party and a detailed account of the convention that chose Bill Vander Zalm. By examining the attitudes and ideologies of party activists, they are able to pinpoint their locations on the left/right spectrum, identify internal divisions, and assess the problems and opportunities they pose for party leaders and election strategies. As the British Columbia case illustrates, party militants carry distinctive subcultures which have a significant impact on the ongoing dynamics and immediate outcomes in competitive party systems. The study also shows that the partisan involvement of activists in national political parties is one of the major forces that links the otherwise separate provincial and federal political worlds inhabited by British Columbians.
| Author | : Robert P. Steed |
| Publisher | : University of Alabama Press |
| Total Pages | : 278 |
| Release | : 2012-10-29 |
| Genre | : History |
| ISBN | : 0817357475 |
Maps the ways political parties remain vital components in the American political system, especially in the eleven states in the South As Tocqueville noted more than 100 years ago, “No countries need associations more . . . than those with a democratic social state.” Although some contemporary observers see a decline in associations, especially in the political sphere, the contributors in this volume argue not only that political parties remain an essential component of the American political system but also that grassroots political groups have revitalized the political process, especially in the South. Using data gathered from local party officials in the eleven southern states, the authors examine such key issues as: Who becomes involved in local party organizations and why? How do parties recruit and retain workers? What are the ideological and issue orientations of these activists? How does intraparty factionalism affect local party organizations? What is the connection between the party organization and its external environment? The large regional database provides these contributors with the opportunity to extend the study of local party organization and activists, thus addressing some of the significant gaps in previous research. The additional data enable them to clarify the nature of local party organizations and, in a larger sense, the role of the parties in the contemporary American political system.
| Author | : Lila Pifer |
| Publisher | : Dorrance Publishing |
| Total Pages | : 78 |
| Release | : 2024-07-10 |
| Genre | : Literary Criticism |
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Not Just Politics: A Guide to Grassroots Activism is a user-friendly introduction for people of any age from all walks of life who want to become politically active, perhaps for the first time in their lives. It explains how political issues are not just about politics, but about the ideas behind such issues. About the Author Lila Pifer edits and publishes a quarterly newsletter, NOT JUST POLITICS. She has a Master’s degree from Northeastern Illinois University and a para-legal certificate from Roosevelt University in Chicago. She is the proud mother of a teacher daughter and grandmother to two teenage grandsons. After spending most of her adult life in Chicago, she has moved back to her hometown in Ohio. In her free time, she enjoys reading, writing, keeping up with current events, and staying involved with important issues in her local community.
| Author | : Daraka Larimore-Hall |
| Publisher | : |
| Total Pages | : 366 |
| Release | : 2014 |
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| ISBN | : 9781321202243 |
In a context in which party organizations' role in politics is heavily circumscribed, CDP leaders and activists have created an organization that is both effective electorally as well as comparatively independent and participatory. That social movements and movement activists have played a role in the narrative of conflict and cooperation that produced this outcome is significant--both for scholars interested in the impact of movements on institutional politics, as well as students of political parties interested in preserving or expanding the crucial role they play in modern democracies.
| Author | : Charles D. Hadley |
| Publisher | : Univ. of Tennessee Press |
| Total Pages | : 252 |
| Release | : 1998 |
| Genre | : Political Science |
| ISBN | : 9780870499999 |
The implications of these and other significant realignments - especially as reflected among grassroots activists in the two major parties - are the focus of this valuable new book.
| Author | : Joseph I. Abrahams |
| Publisher | : Xlibris Corporation |
| Total Pages | : 378 |
| Release | : 2007-04-02 |
| Genre | : Political Science |
| ISBN | : 1425721850 |
In an historic turn, grassroots America has overcome its apathy and cyclic reversion to the ways of the past, last induced by Islamic fundamentalism. Newly cognizant of its inherent interests, grassroots America has responded to the vision of Barak Obama and Hillary Clinton, and fl ocked to the polls. The emotions of politics take front and center. In Democracy From The Grassroots: A Guide to Creative Politics, we examine in depth the political passion of the grassroots and these emergent leaders. Beginning with an inspiring historical overview of grassroots politics in America, the author then guides us through its organizational structures the political clubs, committees, councils, caucuses, and workshops wherein real people work to create real change. A chapter devoted to the analysis of issues, the systems which determine their resolution, and their role in the political campaign, serves to enlighten and motivate the ideal lead-in to an exhaustive section on training. A concise summary integrates the hypotheses set forth about the role of grassroots politics in American social development. And in a unique and compelling twist, that model is then compared to the individual's development as a person. Written by psychoanalyst, political activist and scholar Dr. Joseph Abrahams, Democracy From the Grassroots, A Guide to Creative Political Action presents the pioneering work of three decades in the grassroots trenches. At once a vibrant history lesson and a call to action, this slender volume is as lush in practical howto as it is in thoughtful refl ection and insight. The appendix is remarkable for its richly annotated bibliography and a revealing chronicle of the events and issues of American grassroots movements.
| Author | : Theda Skocpol |
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| Total Pages | : 385 |
| Release | : 2020 |
| Genre | : Political Science |
| ISBN | : 0190083522 |
The election of Barack Obama in 2008 was startling, as was the victory of Donald Trump eight years later. Because both presidents were unusual and gained office backed by Congresses controlled by their own parties, their elections kick-started massive counter-movements. The Tea Party starting in 2009 and the "resistance" after November 2016 transformed America's political landscape. Upending American Politics offers a fresh perspective on recent upheavals, tracking the emergence and spread of local voluntary citizens' groups, the ongoing activities of elite advocacy organizations and consortia of wealthy donors, and the impact of popular and elite efforts on the two major political parties and candidate-led political campaigns. Going well beyond national surveys, Theda Skocpol, Caroline Tervo, and their contributors use organizational documents, interviews, and local visits to probe changing organizational configurations at the national level and in swing states. This volume analyzes conservative politics in the first section and progressive responses in the second to provide a clear overview of US politics as a whole. By highlighting evidence from the state level, it also reveals the important interplay of local and national trends.
