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Volume 54 - Issue 2 - May 2020

Journal of American Studies Volume 54 - Issue 2 -
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Reviews

Corrigendum

  • Whiteness and Masculinity in Richard Lou’s ReCovering Memphis: ReContexting Bodies – CORRIGENDUM

  • JODY STOKES-CASEY
  • Published online by Cambridge University Press:
    28 September 2019, p. 459
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  • What Did They Wish For? Party Government, Polarization and the American Political Science Association

  • MARK WICKHAM-JONES
  • Published online by Cambridge University Press:
    30 April 2020, E14

  • In tracing the development of increased polarization in the United States, numerous scholars have noted the apparent importance of the American Political Science Association's (APSA's) Committee on Political Parties. The committee's influential (and often criticized) report, Toward a More Responsible Two-Party System, called for a wholesale transformation of political parties in the United States. On its publication in October 1950, political scientists quickly concluded that, taken together, the committee's recommendations represented a reworking of a distinct approach, usually known as “party government” or “responsible party government.” (The origins of responsible parties dated back to Woodrow Wilson's classic 1885 text Congressional Government.) Since then, the notion of party government has become a core issue in the study of American political parties, albeit a contentious one. A recent survey ranked the APSA document at seventh as a canonical text in graduate syllabi concerning parties.

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