The History Of Third Parties

Author : Vicki Cox
Publisher : Infobase Publishing
ISBN 13 : 143810751X
Total Pages : 129 pages
Book Rating : 4.16/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The History of Third Parties written by Vicki Cox and published by Infobase Publishing. This book was released on 2007 with total page 129 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Examines the participation of smaller, more specialized political parties in America's election process from the Tertium Quids of 1806 to today's Green Party.

Author : David A. Epstein
Publisher : Lulu.com
ISBN 13 : 057810654X
Total Pages : 240 pages
Book Rating : 4.40/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Left, Right, Out: The History of Third Parties in America written by David A. Epstein and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2012-05-01 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Left, Right, Out is the untold story of American political history. Exploring American history from its founding, David A. Epstein presents the phenomena that shaped the nation and its politics through the prism of third party politics. Whether short-lived or longer-lasting, each party examined in Left, Right, Out represents a unique and acute expression of the great social, economic, and political forces that influenced the evolution of the United States. Left, Right, Out reveals how much that we take for granted in American politics and society finds its origins in third party politics. Monumental movements such as Abolition, Prohibition, and Civil Rights, long associated with major party politics, originated in the efforts of pioneering third parties and their adherents. Left, Right, Out takes you into the remote corners of U.S. history and explores the forces and personalities forgotten in a standard reading of American political history.

Author : Donald J. Green
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
ISBN 13 : 031336592X
Total Pages : 198 pages
Book Rating : 4.28/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Third-Party Matters written by Donald J. Green and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 2010-06-02 with total page 198 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This fascinating book looks at the select group of third parties that have made a real difference in U.S. politics and governance. Third parties have been a fixture in the American political landscape since the beginning of the two-party system. More than 300 of these groups have surfaced, but only a handful have made a real difference. Third-Party Matters: Politics, Presidents, and Third Parties in American History tells the intriguing stories of those 11 parties, starting with the antislavery Liberty Party of 1840. The parties deemed worthy of inclusion were selected because they met at least one of three criteria. They were spoilers who changed the outcome of an election, they had an important influence on government policy or the future of politics, and/or they had popular appeal, attracting at least ten percent of the vote. This investigation reveals the background behind each party's rise, what it stood for, who its leaders were—including larger-than-life personalities like Teddy Roosevelt, George Wallace, and Ross Perot—and the ultimate outcome of the election(s) in which the party participated.

Author : Richard Davis
Publisher : University Press of Kansas
ISBN 13 : 0700629289
Total Pages : 296 pages
Book Rating : 4.82/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Beyond Donkeys and Elephants written by Richard Davis and published by University Press of Kansas. This book was released on 2020-05-25 with total page 296 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Confronted with two historically unpopular presidential candidates, the American electorate in 2016 delivered a shock to the political system. Less noted, amid the drama of Donald Trump’s victory, was the substantial share of the vote won by minor parties and independent candidates—one of whom, Libertarian Gary Johnson, put in the best third-party performance since Ross Perot’s 1996 Reform Party bid. Even more surprising, at the state-level minor-party candidates made greater inroads, in some states combining to win over 10 percent of the vote. At a time of increasing dissatisfaction with a two-party system, this book provides a much-needed look at the current political party alternatives in the United States. In Beyond Donkeys and Elephants, the chapter authors survey the present political landscape but also delve into the history of third parties and consider their likely directions and prospects looking forward. The most comprehensive account ever written of contemporary minor political parties in the United States, Beyond Donkeys and Elephants covers parties at the national, regional, and state levels. It discusses the well-known alternatives—including the Green, Constitution, and Libertarian Parties—as well as niche state-level parties such as the Mountain Party in West Virginia, the Vermont Progressive Party, the Moderate Party of Rhode Island, and the United Utah Party. This book also places the current resurgence of minor parties in historical context, examining the larger political forces at play. With its case studies past and present, its insights into the formation and nature of minor parties, and its in-depth analysis of why and when such parties emerge, this book affords readers across the political spectrum a unique opportunity to understand and evaluate alternatives as the two-party system undergoes ever greater strains in the coming years.

Author : Norma Jean Lutz
Publisher : Chelsea House Pub
ISBN 13 : 9780791055410
Total Pages : 64 pages
Book Rating : 4.18/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The History of Third Parties written by Norma Jean Lutz and published by Chelsea House Pub. This book was released on 2000-01-01 with total page 64 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Examines the participation of smaller political parties in America's election process from the abolitionist Liberty Party to the campaigns of Reform Party candidates Ross Perot and Jesse Ventura.

Author : Steven J. Rosenstone
Publisher : Princeton University Press
ISBN 13 : 0691190526
Total Pages : 326 pages
Book Rating : 4.25/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Third Parties in America written by Steven J. Rosenstone and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 2018-06-05 with total page 326 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In recent years a growing number of citizens have defected from the major parties to third party presidential candidates. Over the past three decades, independent campaigns led by George Wallace, John Anderson, and Ross Perot have attracted more electoral support than at any time since the 1920s. Third Parties in America explains why and when the two-party system deteriorates and third parties flourish. Relying on data from presidential elections between 1840 and 1992, it identifies the situations in which Americans abandon the major parties and shows how third parties encourage major party responsiveness and broader representation of political interests.

Author : John F Bibby
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 0429964145
Total Pages : 172 pages
Book Rating : 4.45/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Two Parties--or More? written by John F Bibby and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2019-05-20 with total page 172 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Students of American government are faced with an enduring dilemma: Why two parties? Why has this system remained largely intact while around the world democracies support multiparty systems? Should our two-party system continue as we enter the new millennium? This newly revised and updated edition of Two Parties-Or More? answers these questions by

Author : Heather Cox Richardson
Publisher : Basic Books
ISBN 13 : 0465080669
Total Pages : 417 pages
Book Rating : 4.63/5 ( download)

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Download or read book To Make Men Free written by Heather Cox Richardson and published by Basic Books. This book was released on 2014-09-23 with total page 417 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From the New York Times bestselling author of Democracy Awakening, “the most comprehensive account of the GOP and its competing impulses” (Los Angeles Times) When Abraham Lincoln helped create the Republican Party on the eve of the Civil War, his goal was to promote economic opportunity for all Americans, not just the slaveholding Southern planters who steered national politics. Yet, despite the egalitarian dream at the heart of its founding, the Republican Party quickly became mired in a fundamental identity crisis. Would it be the party of democratic ideals? Or would it be the party of moneyed interests? In the century and a half since, Republicans have vacillated between these two poles, with dire economic, political, and moral repercussions for the entire nation. In To Make Men Free, celebrated historian Heather Cox Richardson traces the shifting ideology of the Grand Old Party from the antebellum era to the Great Recession, revealing the insidious cycle of boom and bust that has characterized the Party since its inception. While in office, progressive Republicans like Teddy Roosevelt and Dwight Eisenhower revived Lincoln's vision of economic freedom and expanded the government, attacking the concentration of wealth and nurturing upward mobility. But they and others like them have been continually thwarted by powerful business interests in the Party. Their opponents appealed to Americans' latent racism and xenophobia to regain political power, linking taxation and regulation to redistribution and socialism. The results of the Party's wholesale embrace of big business are all too familiar: financial collapses like the Panic of 1893, the Great Depression in 1929, and the Great Recession in 2008. With each passing decade, with each missed opportunity and political misstep, the schism within the Republican Party has grown wider, pulling the GOP ever further from its founding principles. Expansive and authoritative, To Make Men Free is a sweeping history of the Party that was once America's greatest political hope -- and, time and time again, has proved its greatest disappointment.

Author : Corey M. Brooks
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
ISBN 13 : 022630728X
Total Pages : 311 pages
Book Rating : 4.82/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Liberty Power written by Corey M. Brooks and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 2016-01-14 with total page 311 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: American politics and society were transformed by the antislavery movement. But as Corey M. Brooks shows, it was the antislavery third parties not the Democrats or Whigs that had the largest and least-understood impact. Third-party abolitionists exploited opportunities to achieve outsized influence and shaping the national debate. Political abolitionists key contribution was the elaboration and dissemination of the notion of the Slave Power the claim that slaveholders wielded disproportionate political power and therefore threatened the liberties and political power of northern whites. By convincing northerners of the Slave Power menace, abolitionists paved the way for broader coalitions, and ultimately for Abraham Lincoln s Republican Party."

Author : Immanuel Ness
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 336 pages
Book Rating : 4.51/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Encyclopedia of Third Parties in America: Third parties in history written by Immanuel Ness and published by . This book was released on 2000 with total page 336 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Intended to be an accessible yet comprehensive resource for readers seeking information about all major and most minor third political parties or candidates in American history, as well as major independent canadacies."--Introduction.