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This chapter sees the Civil War as part of a longer critical juncture in which different forms of mass politics developed and merged with elite politics, as part of the abolitionist movement joined the new Republican Party and constituted a movement-party that was responsible for turning a war over secession into a battle to free the slaves. This movement-party hybrid relapsed into ordinary party politics at war’s end, deserting the newly-freed slaves and turning the Republicans into a northern-western party of business.

How do social movements intersect with the agendas of mainstream political parties? When they are integrated with parties, are they coopted? Or are they more radically transformative? Examining major episodes of contention in American politics – from the Civil War era to the women's rights and civil rights movements to the Tea Party and Trumpism today – Sidney Tarrow tackles these questions and provides a new account of how the interactions between movements and parties have been transformed over the course of American history. He shows that the relationships between movements and parties have been central to American democratization – at times expanding it and at times threatening its future. Today, movement politics have become more widespread as the parties have become weaker. The future of American democracy hangs in the balance.

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Movements and Parties