ISBN:
9781009013963
,
9781316515556
Language:
English
Pages:
xiv, 291 Seiten
Series Statement:
Cambridge studies in contentious politics
Parallel Title:
Erscheint auch als Tarrow, Sidney G., 1938 - Movements and parties
DDC:
306.2/60973
Keywords:
Political participation History
;
Political culture History
;
Political parties History
;
Social movements History
;
Social change Political aspects
;
History
;
POLITICAL SCIENCE / American Government / General
;
POLITICAL SCIENCE / American Government / General
;
United States Politics and government 1945-1989
;
United States Politics and government 1989-
;
United States Politics and government 1865-1933
;
United States Politics and government 1933-1945
;
USA
;
Demokratie
;
Politische Bewegung
;
Soziale Bewegung
;
Politische Wirksamkeit
;
Partei
;
Wechselwirkung
;
Geschichte 1865-2020
Abstract:
List of tables -- List of figures and maps -- Preface and acknowledgements -- Introduction -- Movements and parties in contentious politics -- Part one: the "Party period" -- Mass politics in the civil war crucible -- The Agrarian revolt, populism, and the gilded age party system -- Part two: the transitional period -- Women, war, and the vote -- Labor and civil rights from the new deal to the war on poverty -- Part three: hollowing parties in a movement society -- The long new right -- The hybridization of the party system -- Part four: contemporary conjunctions -- Trumpism and the movements he madeH -- Learning about America from comparison -- Conclusions.
Abstract:
"Between November 3rd, 2020 and January 20th 2021, the United States experienced a combination of events that will be remembered as a tragic episode in American history. In the midst of a devastating pandemic, one President was soundly defeated and another sworn in; the first one refused to accept the results of the election while the second calmly took the reins of a government that was struggling to cope with the pandemic and the resulting economic crisis. In the midst of all this, the country was shaken by an attempted coup and by an attendant riot.1 Although it may not turn out that this political and institutional shock "changed everything," it certainly marked the peak -or the nadir - of what will surely be remembered as a "critical juncture"2 in American history. But another "critical connection" that was exposed by the events of those two months was the enduring, but ever changing, and often overlooked juncture between political parties and social movements"--
Note:
Includes bibliographical references
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