ABSTRACT
This study traces the history of the national committee chairmanships of the two major political parties in the United States, emphasizing the national conventions and presidential campaigns - where national factions often reveal themselves. Candidate and ideolological factionalism, as the evidence of this volume demonstrates, has been the principal engine of convention action. Factional conflicts have had consequences not just for the political parties but for the party system itself. The institutional history of the two national committees and their chairmanships reveals a previously unrecorded aspect of United States national party development.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
part I|54 pages
In the Beginning
part |22 pages
Democrats
part |30 pages
Republicans
part II|81 pages
Disintegration and Reintegration
part |42 pages
Democrats
part |37 pages
Republicans
part III|74 pages
Stabilizing the Pinnacle
part |37 pages
Democrats
part |35 pages
Republicans
part IV|93 pages
Destruction by Faction
part |43 pages
Democrats
part |48 pages
Republicans
part V|111 pages
Formalizing the National Chairmanship
part |56 pages
Democrats
part |53 pages
Republicans
part VI|116 pages
Bureaucratizing the National Committee
part |55 pages
Democrats
part |59 pages
Republicans
part VII|45 pages
The Long View: Processes and Problems