Passions and Interests : Political Party Concepts of American Democracy
Bridging analysis of political parties and political philosophy, Passions and Interests presents eight conceptual models of political parties with particular relevance to American democracy. Gerald Pomper, an internationally recognized scholar, asks three questions: What meanings are attributed to p...
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University Press of Kansas
1992
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