The Third Electoral System, 1853-1892: Parties, Voters, and Political Cultures

by Paul Kleppner

Book Overview

This analysis of the contours and social bases of mass voting behavior in the United States over the course of the third electoral era, from 1853 to 1892, provides a deep and rich understanding of the ways in which ethnoreligious values shaped party combat in the late nineteenth century. It was this uniquely American mode of "political confessionals" that underlay the distinctive characteristics of the era's electoral universe.

In its exploration...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0807865540
• ISBN13: 9780807865545
• Release Date: April 2009
• Publisher: University of North Carolina Press
• Length: 448 Pages
• Weight: 1.44 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 6.0" x 9.0"