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The State of the Parties 2022 brings together leading scholars of parties, elections, and interest groups to provide an indispensable overview of American political parties today. The 2020 presidential election was extraordinary. What role did political parties play in these events? How did the party organizations fare? What are the implications for the future? Scholars and practitioners from throughout the United States explore the current state of American party organizations, constituencies and resources at the national, state and local level.



Table of Contents

List of Tables

List of Figures

Acknowledgments

  1. The State of the Parties: Change and Continuity in 2020

John C. Green, Kenneth M. Miller, and David B. Cohen

Part I: State of the Parties

  1. An Era of Unstable Majorities Continues

Morris P. Fiorina

  1. Activists Versus Voters: Intra-party Warfare in the Modern World

Byron E. Shafer and Regina L. Wagner

  1. Congressional Primary Challenges and the Health of the Parties

Robert G. Boatright

Part II: Partisan Voters

  1. Peak Polarization? The Rise of Partisan-Ideological Consistency and its Consequences

Alan I. Abramowitz

  1. Political Identity and Beliefs about Stolen Elections in the American Electorate

Anita Manion, David C. Kimball, and Adriano Udani

  1. Major Party Factions in a Battleground State: Self-Identified Factional Affiliation among Pennsylvania Voters

Stephen K. Medvic and Berwood A. Yost

  1. Blue Metros, Red States: The Geography of the 2020 Vote in the Swing States

David F. Damore, Karen A. Danielsen, and Robert E. Lang

  1. Turning the Natural State Red: The Rise of the GOP in Arkansas

John C. Davis

Part III: Partisan Activity

  1. Nationalized Congressional Finance: Evidence from 2018 and 2020

Kenneth M. Miller

  1. The Ground Game in 2020: Party Contacts as Reported by Voters

Paul A. Beck

  1. From Tea Party to Trump Party

Ronald B. Rapoport and W. Henry Crossman

Part IV: Women and Party Politics

  1. The Partisan Gap among Women in Elective Office: 2020 and Beyond

Laurel Elder

  1. Fired Up or Falling Flat: Recruitment of Women Candidates during the Trump Administration

Shannon McQueen

  1. The Super Women and the Super Men behind Super PACs: A New Source of Inequality

Paul S. Herrnson and Jennifer A. Heerwig

References

Index

About the Contributors

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      Description

      Book Synopsis

      The State of the Parties 2022 brings together leading scholars of parties, elections, and interest groups to provide an indispensable overview of American political parties today. The 2020 presidential election was extraordinary. What role did political parties play in these events? How did the party organizations fare? What are the implications for the future? Scholars and practitioners from throughout the United States explore the current state of American party organizations, constituencies and resources at the national, state and local level.



      Table of Contents

      List of Tables

      List of Figures

      Acknowledgments

      1. The State of the Parties: Change and Continuity in 2020

      John C. Green, Kenneth M. Miller, and David B. Cohen

      Part I: State of the Parties

      1. An Era of Unstable Majorities Continues

      Morris P. Fiorina

      1. Activists Versus Voters: Intra-party Warfare in the Modern World

      Byron E. Shafer and Regina L. Wagner

      1. Congressional Primary Challenges and the Health of the Parties

      Robert G. Boatright

      Part II: Partisan Voters

      1. Peak Polarization? The Rise of Partisan-Ideological Consistency and its Consequences

      Alan I. Abramowitz

      1. Political Identity and Beliefs about Stolen Elections in the American Electorate

      Anita Manion, David C. Kimball, and Adriano Udani

      1. Major Party Factions in a Battleground State: Self-Identified Factional Affiliation among Pennsylvania Voters

      Stephen K. Medvic and Berwood A. Yost

      1. Blue Metros, Red States: The Geography of the 2020 Vote in the Swing States

      David F. Damore, Karen A. Danielsen, and Robert E. Lang

      1. Turning the Natural State Red: The Rise of the GOP in Arkansas

      John C. Davis

      Part III: Partisan Activity

      1. Nationalized Congressional Finance: Evidence from 2018 and 2020

      Kenneth M. Miller

      1. The Ground Game in 2020: Party Contacts as Reported by Voters

      Paul A. Beck

      1. From Tea Party to Trump Party

      Ronald B. Rapoport and W. Henry Crossman

      Part IV: Women and Party Politics

      1. The Partisan Gap among Women in Elective Office: 2020 and Beyond

      Laurel Elder

      1. Fired Up or Falling Flat: Recruitment of Women Candidates during the Trump Administration

      Shannon McQueen

      1. The Super Women and the Super Men behind Super PACs: A New Source of Inequality

      Paul S. Herrnson and Jennifer A. Heerwig

      References

      Index

      About the Contributors

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