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03424aam a2200433 i 4500 001 E06BF91C370411E887D7D95B97128E48 003 SILO 005 20180403010230 008 170505t20182018ilua b 001 0 eng c 010 $a 2017022086 020 $a 022649537X 020 $a 9780226495378 020 $a 022649523X 020 $a 9780226495231 035 $a (OCoLC)987437154 040 $a ICU/DLC $b eng $e rda $c CGU $d DLC $d OCLCO $d OCLCF $d OCLCQ $d ERASA $d YDX $d YDX $d OCLCO $d GZM $d SILO 042 $a pcc 043 $a n-usu-- 050 00 $a JK2295 S6 A43 2018 100 1 $a Aldrich, John H., $d 1947- $e author. 245 10 $a Why parties matter : $b political competition and democracy in the American South / $c John H. Aldrich, John D. Griffin. 264 1 $a Chicago : $b The University of Chicago Press, $c 2018. 300 $a xv, 300 pages : $b illustrations ; $c 24 cm. 490 1 $a Chicago studies in American politics 504 $a Includes bibliographical references and index. 505 0 $a Why parties matter. "Except in the South" ; Political parties, electoral competition, and effective democratic governance -- The exceptional South. Democratic-whig parties in the Jacksonian era ; Parties in the post-reconstruction era ; Parties in the Jim Crow South ; The Southern turn to Republicanism -- The democratic fruits of party competition. Party systems and electoral competition ; Competitive party systems and democratic responsiveness ; Competitive party systems and democratic effectiveness. 520 8 $a Since the founding of the American Republic, the North and South have followed remarkably different paths of political development. Among the factors that have led to their divergence throughout much of history are differences in the levels of competition among the political parties. While the North has generally enjoyed a well-defined two-party system, the South has tended to have only weakly developed political parties and at times no system of parties to speak of. John H. Aldrich and John D. Griffin make a compelling case that competition between political parties is an essential component of a democracy that is responsive to its citizens and thus able to address their concerns. Tracing the history of the parties through four eras the Democratic-Whig party era that preceded the Civil War; the post-Reconstruction period; the Jim Crow era, when competition between the parties virtually disappeared; and the modern era Aldrich and Griffin show how and when competition emerged between the parties and the conditions under which it succeeded and failed. In the modern era, as party competition in the South has come to be widely regarded as matching that of the North, the authors conclude by exploring the question of whether the South is poised to become a one-party system once again with the Republican party now dominant. 650 0 $a Political parties $z Southern States $x History. 650 0 $a Democracy $z Southern States $x History. 650 0 $a Elections $z Southern States $x History. 651 0 $a Southern States $x History. $x History. 700 1 $a Griffin, John David, $d 1968- $e author. 830 0 $a Chicago studies in American politics. 941 $a 3 952 $l USUX851 $d 20231004012424.0 952 $l OVUX522 $d 20191211025554.0 952 $l SOAX911 $d 20190323010957.0 956 $a http://locator.silo.lib.ia.us/search.cgi?index_0=id&term_0=E06BF91C370411E887D7D95B97128E48 994 $a C0 $b IWAInitiate Another SILO Locator Search