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Response to B. Dan Wood and Soren Jordan’s review of The Polarizers: Postwar Architects of Our Partisan Era

The long unwinding of the nineteenth-century model of party organization and the rise of an expansive national state help ensure that issue-based and ideological motivations will continue to drive those comprising the activist strata of American politics. Conflict extension may have defined the last...

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Published in:Perspectives on politics 2018-09, Vol.16 (3), p.800-801
Main Author: Rosenfeld, Sam
Format: Article
Language:English
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Summary:The long unwinding of the nineteenth-century model of party organization and the rise of an expansive national state help ensure that issue-based and ideological motivations will continue to drive those comprising the activist strata of American politics. Conflict extension may have defined the last several decades of party politics, but Trump’s capture of the GOP nomination in 2016 while espousing several unorthodox positions offered a reminder of the electoral potential for alternatives to existing party cleavages. The real work, conspicuously absent from the Trumpist tendency thus far, comes from sustained effort by activists, organized groups, and political elites who are willing to work over years and decades to build sufficient intraparty clout to restructure party conflict.
ISSN:1537-5927
1541-0986
DOI:10.1017/S1537592718001986