Research Catalog

Title

American State politics: an introduction.

Author

Key, V. O., Jr. (Valdimer Orlando), 1908-1963

Publication

New York, Knopf, 1956.

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Details

Description

289 pages illustrations; 22 cm

Series Statement

Borzoi Books.

Subject

• State governments > United States
• State governments
• Bundesstaat
• Föderalismus
• Politisches System
• United States
• USA

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents

The American states: functional growth and political atrophy -- The new role of the states -- Obstructions to popular government -- An autonomous state politics? -- Federalism, sectionalism, and one-partyism -- States and the tides of national politics -- Party: solvent of federalism -- Isolation of state politics -- The states in the nation -- Frustration to party: the perversion of separation of powers -- Extent and incidence of division of partisan control -- Separation of powers: arbiter of party fortunes and obstacle to popular decision -- Factors contributing to divided party control -- Interaction of institutional structure and party system -- Nonparty politics: the governor and the direct primary -- Direct primary: escape from one-partyism? -- The bipartisan framework of intra-party politics -- Primary competition in the framework of bipartisanship -- Signs of party revival -- The primary and the party system -- Participation in primaries: the illusion of popular rule -- Levels of participation in gubernatorial primaries -- Size of controlling minorities -- Biases in primary constituencies -- Consequences of unrepresentative primary turnout -- Queries about mass control of party hierarchies -- Atrophy of party organization: a study of legislative nominations -- Patterns of primary competition -- The primary and the persistence of partisanism -- Popular nominations: influences on majorities and minorities -- Party and plural executive: the lottery of the long ballot -- Fate of the party ticket: extent of split election results -- Determinants of deviations from party regularity -- Consequence of the divisibility of the executive -- Electoral foundations of state parties -- Accidents of birth and migration -- Variation from bipolarization toward political homogeneity -- Electoral groupings and the coincidence and divergence of state and national cleavage -- Corps of party leadership and their electoral roots -- Lines of action -- Rationale and conditions of partisanship -- Emerging trends and ranges of choice.

LCCN

56006508

OCLC

• ocm00500298
• 500298
• SCSB-123914

Owning Institutions

Princeton University Library