Research Catalog

Title

Quiet revolution : the struggle for the Democratic Party and the shaping of post-reform politics / Byron E. Shafer.

Author

Shafer, Byron E.

Publication

New York : Russell Sage Foundation, c1983.

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Description

ix, 618 p. : ill.; 24 cm.

Uniform Title

Project Muse UPCC books

Subject

• Democratic Party (U.S.)
• Democratic Party (U.S.) > History
• Democratic National Committee (U.S.). Commission on Party Structure and Delegate Selection
• Presidents > United States > Nomination
• Political participation > United States
• United States > Politics and government > 1945-1989
• United States > Politics and government > 1945-1989

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

• Introduction: The hidden struggle: reform politics, institutional change, and the circulation of elites, 1968-1972 -- pt. I. The politics of recommendation. The idea of a Reform Commission: the McCarthy campaign and the "mandate" ; A politics of party reform: the Humphrey campaign and the Party Structure Commission ; An institutionalized bias for reform politics: a statement of purpose and an Executive Committee ; The definition of party reform: the staff in Commission politics ; The internal debate on party reform: the Commissioners in Commission politics ; The content of the mandate: a final meeting and a reform text ; The meaning of the mandate: formal rules and practical effects ; The promulgation of party reform: compliance letters and a published report.
• pt. II. The politics of implementation. The mandate at the national level: the National Chairman and the Commission report ; The mandate at the state level: the state parties and the Commission report ; Reform as an ideology: the elections of 1970 and the functions of the mandate ; The politics of implementation writ small: Pennsylvania accepts reform ; The battle for official status: the preliminary call and the fate of the guidelines ; Climax on the national level: the National Committee and the triumph of the guidelines ; The debate over implementation: state compliance politics and national press analysis ; The National Party revisited: the final call and the triumph of the guidelines -- again ; The re-creation of reform: the Women's Caucus and demographic representation ; The re-creation of reform: the Party Structure Commission and proportionality ; Politics after reform: institutional change and the circulation of elites, 1972-1984 -- Appendix A. Summary of the Official guidelines of the Commission on Party Structure and Delegate Selection -- Appendix B. Roster of personal interviews.

ISBN

0871547651

LCCN

^^^83061130^

OCLC

10270550

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Harvard Library