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The Political Party Matrix: The Persistence of Organization. By J. P. Monroe. Albany: State University of New York Press, 2001. 156p. $49.50 cloth, $16.95 paper.

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  06 June 2002

Andrew J. Taylor
Affiliation:
North Carolina State University

Extract

It used to be an axiom in political science that American parties were weak. Now we are not so sure. During the 1980s and 1990s, the profession produced a great deal of theoretical and empirical work suggesting that U.S. political parties were “resurgent.” J. P. Monroe's book, The Political Party Matrix: The Persistence of Organization, provides an interesting twist on the new literature. It argues that party change is the result not so much of strengthening but of adaptation.

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Book Review
Copyright
2002 by the American Political Science Association

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