The Invisible Hands of Political Parties in Presidential Elections: Party Activists and Political Aggregation from 2004 to 2012

by Patrick A. Stewart, Song Yang, Andrew Dowdle, et al.

One of the truisms in American politics has been that "divisive" primaries hurt the party's prospects of winning the presidency in the general election. However, traditional definitions of divisive primaries focus too much on candidate behavior and not enough on the actual divisions and fractures within a party. The Invisible Hands of Political Parties in Presidential Elections proposes a new measure of party cohesion that instead looks at individual...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1137322799
• ISBN13: 9781137322791
• Release Date: June 2013
• Publisher: Palgrave Pivot
• Length: 143 Pages
• Weight: 0.70 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 5.6" x 8.7"