A comprehensive survey of U.S. political parties: their form, their function, and their present state of health. In this latest edition, Keefe provides a clear understanding of how and why present-day parties function as they do. He gives extensive coverage to the parties' role in the electoral process including the primaries, candidate finance, and voting behavior. Keefe also evaluates the changing nature of party coalitions, party ideologies, interest groups, and heightened popular skepticism toward government, politics, and politicians.
- ISBN10 1568023529
- ISBN13 9781568023526
- Publish Date 1 January 1998
- Publish Status Active
- Out of Print 20 October 2003
- Publish Country US
- Publisher SAGE Publications Inc
- Imprint CQ Press
- Edition 8th edition
- Format Paperback
- Pages 332
- Language English