The parties respond: changes in American parties and campaigns

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List of Tables and Figures Prologue Acknowledgments * From Essential to the Existence of Our Institutions to Rapacious Enemies of Honest and Responsible Government: The Rise and Fall of American Political Parties, 17902000 Joel H. Silbey * State Party Organization: Strengthened and Adapting to Candidate-Centered Politics and Nationalization John F. Bibby * National Party Organization at the Dawn of the Twenty-first Century Paul S. Herrnson * Party Identification and the Electorate at the Start of the Twenty-first Century Warren E. Miller (Updated by Kenneth Goldstein and Mark Jones) * Competing for Attention and Votes: The Role of State Parties in Setting Presidential Nomination Rules Bruce E. Cain and Megan Mullin * Party Role in Congressional Competition L. Sandy Maisel, Cherie Maestas, and Walter J. Stone * Following the (Soft) Money: Party Advertisements in American Elections Michael Franz and Kenneth Goldstein * Political Parties in the Era of Soft Money Ray La Raja * Political Parties in the Media: Where Elephants and Donkeys Are Pigs Matthew Robert Kerbel * Congressional Parties and the Policy Process Barbara Sinclair * Governing by Coalition: Policymaking in the U.S. Congress David W. Brady and Kara Z. Buckley * Partisan Presidential Leadership: The Presidents Appointees G. Calvin Mackenzie * Subtle Shifts, Dramatic Days: What the Plate Tectonics of American Politics Say About the Country and Its Future David M. Shribman References Biographies About the Editor and Contributors