Asymmetric politics : ideological Republicans and group interest Democrats / Matt Grossmann and David A. Hopkins.
Publisher: New York, NY : Oxford University Press, 2016Description: 1 online resource : illustrations (black and white)Content type: text | still image Media type: computer Carrier type: online resourceISBN: 9780190630560 (ebook) :Subject(s): Party affiliation -- United States | Republican Party (U.S. : 1854- )
| Democratic Party (U.S.) | Political culture -- United StatesAdditional Physical Form: Print version : 9780190626594DDC classification: 324.273 LOC classification: JK2271 | .G76 2016Online resources: Oxford scholarship online Summary: The Democratic Party is a coalition of social groups that act as discrete voting blocs for candidates, constituencies for group leaders, and demanders of particular policy commitments. Since the 1960s, the evolution in the relative internal influence of Democratic Party constituencies has reduced the size of the party's conservative wing and expanded its policy agenda - but no organized liberal movement has emerged to dominate its internal organization or succeed in shifting its policies toward leftist positions. The Republican Party, in contrast, serves as the vehicle of a conservative ideological movement that has succeeded in fusing its intellectual strands, marketing its broad critiques of government, building a supportive organizational network, and moving the party toward the policy commitments of its right wing.
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Previously issued in print: 2016.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
The Democratic Party is a coalition of social groups that act as discrete voting blocs for candidates, constituencies for group leaders, and demanders of particular policy commitments. Since the 1960s, the evolution in the relative internal influence of Democratic Party constituencies has reduced the size of the party's conservative wing and expanded its policy agenda - but no organized liberal movement has emerged to dominate its internal organization or succeed in shifting its policies toward leftist positions. The Republican Party, in contrast, serves as the vehicle of a conservative ideological movement that has succeeded in fusing its intellectual strands, marketing its broad critiques of government, building a supportive organizational network, and moving the party toward the policy commitments of its right wing.
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