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By invitation only : the rise of exclusive politics in the United States / Steven E. Schier.
- Title
- By invitation only : the rise of exclusive politics in the United States / Steven E. Schier.
- Author
- Schier, Steven E.
- Publication
- Pittsburgh, Pa. : University of Pittsburgh Press, c2000.
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- Description
- x, 247 p. : ill.; 23 cm.
- Summary
- Examines the shift in the US from mobilization (the partisan method of stimulating high voter turnout in elections) to activation or niche marketing. The author argues that this shift allows organizers to mobilize strategic minorities while cloaking the effort in a misleading guise of popular rule.
- Subject
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 223-237) and index.
- Processing Action (note)
- committed to retain
- Contents
- The rise of activation strategies -- The great disintegration : from partisan mobilization to activation -- Candidates, parties, and electoral activation -- Interest organizations and electoral activation -- Interest organizations and government : lobbying by activation -- From activation to inclusion.
- ISBN
- 0822957124 (pbk. : acid-free paper)
- 0822941090 (cloth : acid-free paper)
- LCCN
- ^^^99050620^
- OCLC
- 42772809
- SCSB-11020393
- Owning Institutions
- Harvard Library