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National Parties and "The Footrule of Local Prejudice": The Transformation of Intra-party Relationships in the Late Nineteenth Century |
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In the late nineteenth century, both major American party organizations were re-born, as the national party organizations wrestled control of the conduct of national campaigns from state and local party organizations. The three most important elements of this attempt were 1.) the development of a new style of national campaigns, 2.) the centralization and formalization of the national committees, and 3.) the creation of a network of national party clubs designed to reach the party-in-the-electorate directly. The overall effect was to transform the basis of party identification in the nation from the local party franchises to the national organizations.
Although scholars have observed a cultural shift to educational campaign styles as a result of Progressive reforms at the turn of the century, and a shift to a modern party organizational form during the New Deal, they have generally relegated the parties to the sidelines of American state-building, and have denigrated twentieth century party politics as evidence only of party decline. But the efforts of nineteenth century national party leaders to reform the parties suggests a place for party-building in the history of state-building, and argues for a reevaluation of claims of party decline, given party leaders' preference for the new model of party organization. Indeed, this new organizational structure became an effective template for twentieth century party politics, replacing the Van Buren model of party organization with a viable twentieth century alternative. |
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| Klinghard, Daniel. "National Parties and "The Footrule of Local Prejudice": The Transformation of Intra-party Relationships in the Late Nineteenth Century" Paper presented at the annual meeting of the American Political Science Association, Marriott Wardman Park, Omni Shoreham, Washington Hilton, Washington, DC, Sep 01, 2005 <Not Available>. 2011-03-14 <http://www.allacademic.com/meta/p41439_index.html> |
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| Klinghard, D. P. , 2005-09-01 "National Parties and "The Footrule of Local Prejudice": The Transformation of Intra-party Relationships in the Late Nineteenth Century" Paper presented at the annual meeting of the American Political Science Association, Marriott Wardman Park, Omni Shoreham, Washington Hilton, Washington, DC Online <PDF>. 2011-03-14 from http://www.allacademic.com/meta/p41439_index.html |
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Abstract: In the late nineteenth century, both major American party organizations were re-born, as the national party organizations wrestled control of the conduct of national campaigns from state and local party organizations. The three most important elements of this attempt were 1.) the development of a new style of national campaigns, 2.) the centralization and formalization of the national committees, and 3.) the creation of a network of national party clubs designed to reach the party-in-the-electorate directly. The overall effect was to transform the basis of party identification in the nation from the local party franchises to the national organizations.
Although scholars have observed a cultural shift to educational campaign styles as a result of Progressive reforms at the turn of the century, and a shift to a modern party organizational form during the New Deal, they have generally relegated the parties to the sidelines of American state-building, and have denigrated twentieth century party politics as evidence only of party decline. But the efforts of nineteenth century national party leaders to reform the parties suggests a place for party-building in the history of state-building, and argues for a reevaluation of claims of party decline, given party leaders' preference for the new model of party organization. Indeed, this new organizational structure became an effective template for twentieth century party politics, replacing the Van Buren model of party organization with a viable twentieth century alternative. |
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| “National Parties and ‘the Footrule of Local Prejudice’: The Transformation of Intra- party Relationships in the Late Nineteenth Century” American Political Science Association Annual Meeting Washington DC September 2 2005 2 In the late nineteenth century the major American parties were re-born transformed by national party leaders who revised the character of party organization. Most significantly national party elites wrestled control of the conduct of national campaigns from state and local party organizations and a new organizational mode emerged |
| does not seek to prove consistently that the Committee’s idea of party was shaped by the late nineteenth century idea of party it does suggest that an organic idea of mass party organizations existed outside the realm of academic speculation long before calls for a “responsible” party organization shaped the way that political scientists assess parties in America. The parties thus deserve to be reinstated in a primary place in the history of the development of the national state |
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