Title Challengers to duopoly : why third parties matter in American two-party politics / J. David Gillespie

Edition 1st ed Published Columbia, S.C. : University of South Carolina Press, 2012

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Description 1 online resource (xiii, 290 pages) : illustrations Contents Cover -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Table of Contents -- List of Illustrations -- Preface -- 1: Duopoly and its Challengers -- 2: Protecting Major-Party Turf -- 3: On the Outside, Looking In -- 4: Constitutionalists, Greens, and Libertarians -- 5: The Early Years: Short-Lived Parties before 1860 -- 6: Union, Reform, and Class: Short-Lived Parties, 1860-1908 -- 7: Thunder Left and Right: Short-Lived Parties, 1912-1960s -- 8: George Wallace and Beyond: Short-Lived Parties, 1968 and After -- 9: The New Independents: The Anderson and Perot Movements -- 10: Taking the Less-Traveled Road: Women, African Americans, Latinos -- 11: Doctrinal Parties 1: The Socialists and Communists -- 12: Doctrinal Parties 2: The Neo-Nazis -- 13: State/Local Significant Others -- 14: Looking Back, Looking Ahead: The Third-Party Legacy and the Future -- Appendix 1: Web Sites of Nonmajor Parties and Related Information Sources -- Appendix 2: Minor-Party and Independent Candidates Receiving More Than 1 Percent of Popular Vote for President -- Appendix 3: Candidates and Votes for President, 2008 -- Appendix 4: Third-Party and Independent Gubernatorial Popular Elections -- Appendix 5: Third-Party Presence (Excluding Independents) at Opening Sessions of the U.S. Congress -- Appendix 6: Post-World War II Third-Party and Independent Members of Congress -- Notes -- Suggestions for Further Reading -- Index of Parties, Associations, and People Summary "An overview of third parties in the American political system"-- Provided by publisher Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index Notes English Print version record Subject Third parties (United States politics) -- History Political participation -- United States -- History POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Political Process -- Political Parties. POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Political Process -- Elections. Political participation Politics and government Third parties (United States politics) SUBJECT United States -- Politics and government. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85140410 Subject United States Genre/Form History Form Electronic book ISBN 9781611171129 1611171121

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