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03843aam a2200457 i 4500 001 334158B086E611EB80D4A9DB35ECA4DB 003 SILO 005 20210317010020 008 200210s2020 nyu b 001 0 eng 010 $a 2020006628 020 $a 0190075511 020 $a 9780190075514 035 $a (OCoLC)1140376210 040 $a DLC $b eng $e rda $c DLC $d OCLCO $d OCLCF $d BDX $d YDX $d SILO 042 $a pcc 043 $a n-us--- 050 00 $a JK1991 $b .C45 2020 082 00 $a 324/.40973 $2 23 100 1 $a Charnock, Emily J., $e author. 245 14 $a The rise of political action committees : $b interest group electioneering and the transformation of American politics / $c Emily J. Charnock. 264 1 $a New York, NY : $b Oxford University Press, $c [2020] 300 $a v, 374 pages ; $c 25 cm. 490 1 $a Studies in postwar American political development 504 $a Includes bibliographical references and index. 505 0 $a Introduction : going into politics -- Interests and elections -- Pressure as prologue -- A tale of two leagues -- Electoral afterlives -- Introducing P.A.C. -- A labor-liberal constellation -- When business is not buisiness-like -- A tale of two PACs -- Conclusion : the House that P.A.C. built. 520 $a "This book explores the origins of Political Action Committees (PACs) in the mid-20th Century and their impact on the American party system. It argues that PACs were envisaged, from the outset, as tools for effecting ideological change in the two main parties, thus helping to foster the partisan polarization we see today. It shows how the very first PAC, created by the Congress of Industrial Organizations (CIO) in 1943, explicitly set out to liberalize the Democratic Party, by channeling campaign resources to liberal Democrats while trying to defeat conservative Southern Democrats. This organizational model and strategy of "dynamic partisanship" subsequently diffused through the interest group world - imitated first by other labor and liberal allies in the 1940s and '50s, only to be adopted and inverted by business and conservative groups in the late 1950s and early '60s. Previously committed to the "conservative coalition" of Southern Democrats and Northern Republicans, they came to embrace a more partisan approach, and created new PACs to help refashion the Republican Party into a conservative counterweight. The Rise of Political Action locates this PAC mobilization in the larger story of interest group electioneering, which went from a rare and highly controversial practice at the beginning of the 20th Century to a ubiquitous phenomenon today. It also offers a fuller picture of PACs as far more than financial vehicles, but electoral innovators who pioneered strategies and tactics that have come to pervade modern US campaigns, as well as transform the American party system"-- $c Provided by publisher. 650 0 $a Political action committees $z United States $x History. 650 0 $a Campaign funds $z United States $x History. 650 0 $a Lobbying $z United States $x History. 650 0 $a Pressure groups $z United States $x History. 650 7 $a Campaign funds. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst00844844 650 7 $a Lobbying. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst01001123 650 7 $a Political action committees. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst01069184 650 7 $a Pressure groups. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst01075954 651 7 $a United States. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst01204155 655 7 $a History. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst01411628 776 08 $i Online version: $a Charnock, Emily J., $t Rise of political action committees $d New York, NY : Oxford University Press, 2020. $z 9780190075538 $w (DLC) 2020006629 830 0 $a Oxford studies in postwar American political development. 941 $a 1 952 $l OVUX522 $d 20220317022857.0 956 $a http://locator.silo.lib.ia.us/search.cgi?index_0=id&term_0=334158B086E611EB80D4A9DB35ECA4DBInitiate Another SILO Locator Search