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The Divided Democrats

Transforming American Politics

Lawrence C. Dodd, Series Editor

Dramatic changes in political institutions and behavior over the past three decades have underscored the dynamic nature of American politics, confronting political scientists with a new and pressing intellectual agenda. The pioneering work of early postwar scholars, while laying a firm empirical foundation for contemporary scholarship, failed to consider how American politics might change or recognize the forces that would make fundamental change inevitable. In reassessing the static interpretations fostered by these classic studies, political scientists are now examining the underlying dynamics that generate transformational change.

Transforming American Politics brings together texts and monographs that address four closely-related aspects of change. A first concern is documenting and explaining recent changes in American politicsin institutions, processes, behavior, and policymaking. A second is reinterpreting classic studies and theories to provide a more accurate perspective on postwar politics. The series looks at historical change to identify recurring patterns of political transformation within and across the distinctive eras of American politics. Last and perhaps most important, the series presents new theories and interpretations that explain the dynamic processes at work and thus clarify the direction of contemporary politics. All of the books focus on the central theme of transformationtransformation in both the conduct of American politics and in the way we study and understand its many aspects.

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Seeing Red: How the Cold War Shaped American Politics,
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The Divided Democrats

Ideological Unity, Party Reform, and Presidential Elections

William G. Mayer
With A Foreword By
Nelson W. Polsby

Transforming American Politics

First published 1996 by Westview Press

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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Mayer, William G.
The divided democrats: ideological unity, party reform, and presidential elections / William G. Mayer.
p. cm.(Transforming American politics)
Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN 0-8133-2679-6 (hbk.) ISBN 0-8133-2680-X (pbk.)
1. Democratic Party (U.S.) 2. Republican Party (U.S. : 1854-) 3. Party affiliation United States. I. Title. II. Series.
JK2316.M29 1996
324.2734dc20

96-8135
CIP

ISBN 13: 978-0-8133-2680-1 (pbk)

To Amy
What I have done is yours;
what I have to do is yours;
being part in all I have, devoted yours.

Contents

, Nelson W. Polsby

1. ii
2. iii
3. xix

Guide

Tables

Figures

The argument offered in the following pages assumed its present form after a quite lengthy period of germination and development, and I in turn have accumulated a substantial list of debts. Foremost among these, on the academic side, is to Nelson W. Polsby, with whom I originally wrote . Anyone familiar with the scholarly literature on party reform will recognize the heavy influence of the questions and issues first raised in Nelson's work, even though, in the end, I come to a somewhat different conclusion than he does. My personal debt to him, for his continuing generosity and encouragement, is even greater.

The analysis in also benefited greatly from a Berkeley connection. Shortly after I began to re-examine the literature on the divisive primary I was fortunate enough to appear on a conference panel with Michael Hgen, whose basic perspective on the issue paralleled my own. Michael's paperand our many conversations since thenhave helped enormously to clarify and enlarge my thinking.

For advice and feedback on earlier drafts of the manuscript, I wish to express my appreciation to Joseph Cooper, Ted Lascher, Morris Fiorina, Howard Reiter, Gerald Pomper, and Garrison Nelson. A special word of thanks is due to my colleagues at Northeastern University, especially Chris Bosso, Woody Kay, John Portz, Michael Tolley, Bruce Wallin, Michael Dukakis, and Suzanne Ogden, both for their intellectual stimulation and for providing a wonderfully friendly and supportive environment in which to work.

On the editorial side, it was a very good experience to work with Jennifer Knerr, Brenda Hadenfeldt, and Larry Dodd at Westview Press, Jennifer, in particular, made numerous helpful suggestions about the shape of the final product. I join a long list of political scientists who lament her recent departure from Westview. My thanks also to Jennifer Maughan and Sabine Barcatta at ICC.

finally, the greatest pleasure finishing a book remains the opportunity it gives me to express my gratitude for all the love and support I have received so unstintingly from my family: from my parents, Mary Rose and Joseph Mayer; and from Joe, Rita, Lauren, and Joseph Michael; Mary Beth, Joe, Allie, and Kate King; Jack; Tom; and Rosemary, Scott, Andy, and Steve Kryk, In this case, my pleasure is doubled, for in August of 1994, I received the extraordinary blessing of being welcomed into a second family, that of Natalie and Maurice Logan; Brian and Adam; Nancy; and Maureen, Bill, and Andrew Ferrari. Above all, there is my wife, Amy, who, in addition to being a fabulous proofreader, endures all of my quirks and frettings and late night hours and somehow still manages to make every day of our marriage an act of joy.

William G. Mayer

NELSON W. POLSBY

This book constitutes William G. Mayer's most comprehensive attempt to make sense of the way in which the machinery of the American party system has evolved in the last 30 years or so in the making of presidential nominations. It arises in part from some work he and I did together reported here mostly in . This work addresses some unfinished business left over from my own best shot at the same big problem, published in 1983 as Consequences of Party Reform, and in the seventh and eighth editions (1988 and 1991) of Presidential Elections, my book with Aaron Wildavsky. The much-missed Wildavsky, who died in 1993, believed that the Republican Party, once quite ideologically homogeneous, was coming to resemble the Democrats. Pro-choice Republican women and southern white fundamentalist Christians were, he thought, bringing the same sort of variation and contentiousness to the Republican Party that had always characterized the Democrats.

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