This work on the structure of American parties combines the breadth that has been characteristic of voter analysis and the richness found in case studies of local party organizations. In a series of fifty sketches of the American states, David Mayhew maps local parties as of the late 1960’s, from city and county machines and lesser patronage-based organizations to amateur club movements, municipal good government groups, and Minnesota’s unusual Democratic-Farmer-Labor apparatus.
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