Small power [electronic resource] : how local parties shape elections

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자료유형	단행본
서명/저자사항	Small power [electronic resource]: how local parties shape elections / David Doherty, Conor M. Dowling and Michael G. Miller.
개인저자	Doherty, David, author. Dowling, Conor M., author. Miller, Michael G., author.
발행사항	New York: Oxford University Press, [2022]
형태사항	1 online resource
ISBN	9780197605035 0197605036 9780197605028 0197605028
서지주기	Includes bibliographical references and index.
내용주기	Part 1. Local Party Organizations and the Electoral Landscape. Introduction -- Local Parties and their Leaders -- What Do Local Party Chairs Do? -- Chairs and Candidates: Recruiting and Support -- Local Parties and Election Outcomes -- Part 2. How Chairs View Candidates. Introduction to Part 2 -- Money, Commitment, and Community Ties -- Candidate Gender -- Candidate Race and Ethnicity -- Candidates' Policy Dispositions -- Small Power.
요약	"This book examines the role local party organizations play in the electoral process. It draws on dozens of in-person interviews with local party chairpersons, as well as findings from a national survey of these local elites. Part I of the book explores who leads local party organizations and what these organizations do. The findings demonstrate that these organizations play a critical role in converting citizens into politicians and supporting them as they navigate the campaign process. These efforts appear to pay dividends as candidates from a party tend to perform better in areas where the local party organization is active. Part II considers what local party chairpersons look for in a candidate, drawing on findings from an experiment included in the national survey of party chairs. The experiment asked chairs which of a pair of candidates they thought would be most likely to prevail in a primary in their area and varied an array of candidate characteristics, including their policy positions, family structures, and their purported ethnoracial identity and gender. The results offer novel insights into the attributes that elites who play a critical role in candidate recruitment see as enhancing (or degrading) an individual's electoral prospects. Throughout, the experimental evidence is bolstered by findings from the in-depth interviews with chairs"--
해제	Provided by publisher.
주제명(지명)	United States. --fast
일반주제명	Political party organization --United States. Political campaigns --United States. Elections --United States. Elections. Political campaigns. Political party organization.
분류기호(DDC)	324.273
언어	영어
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