The Decline of American Political Parties, 1952-1988

Wattenberg, Martin P, and Burnham, Walter Dean (Foreword by)

ISBN 10: 0674194322 / ISBN 13: 9780674194328

Published by Harvard University Press, Cambridge, MA, 1990

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Trade paperback (US). Glued binding. 203 p. Contains: Illustrations. Audience: General/trade. No previous owner's name. Clean, tight pages. No bent corners. sc 256. Seller Inventory # Alibris.0042230

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Title: The Decline of American Political Parties, ...

Publisher: Harvard University Press, Cambridge, MA

Publication Date: 1990

Binding: Trade paperback

Condition: Very good.

Edition: 3rd Edition

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Synopsis:

This text on the travails of political parties in the United States is now up-to-date with a chapter bringing the analysis through to the 1992 presidential election. As in all previous editions, Wattenberg has a new angle of vision: in 1992 it is the Ross Perot phenomenon. More than any election in recent memory, the 1992 presidential election campaign demonstrated the weak hold of the two major parties on the American public. The election was unique in the historically unparalleled independent presidential candidacy of Ross Perot. Perot's astonishing success demolishes the arguments of a number of recent theories declaring that parties are alive and well, and offers some backing for Wattenberg's abiding thesis.

About the Author:

Martin P. Wattenberg is Professor of Political Science at the University of California, Irvine.