Throughout the contest for the 2008 Democratic presidential nomination, politicians and voters alike worried that the outcome might depend on the preferences of

This volume demonstrates how party insiders from America's founding to the present day have sought to control presidential nominations as a meanns of getting wh

What determines the interests, ideologies, and alliances that make up political parties? In its entire history, the United States has had only a handful of part

Political Ideologies and Political Parties in America puts ideology front and center in the discussion of party coalition change. Treating ideology as neither a

Who governs political parties? Recent insurgent campaigns, such as those of Donald Trump and Bernie Sanders, have thrust this critical question to the center of