Issue Conflict and Consensus among Party Leaders and Followers
- 1 June 1960
- journal article
- Published by Cambridge University Press (CUP) in American Political Science Review
- Vol. 54 (2) , 406-427
- https://doi.org/10.2307/1978302
Abstract
American political parties are often regarded as “brokerage” organizations, weak in principle, devoid of ideology, and inclined to differ chiefly over unimportant questions. In contrast to the “ideological” parties of Europe—which supposedly appeal to their followers through sharply defined, coherent, and logically related doctrines—the American parties are thought to fit their convictions to the changing demands of the political contest. According to this view, each set of American party leaders is satisfied to play Tweedledee to the other's Tweedledum.Keywords
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