American Political Parties
John White,Matthew Robert Kerbel +1 more
TLDR
The authors developed a unique historical perspective of US political party development using the disagreements between Alexander Hamilton and Thomas Jefferson as a framework for analysis, and used it for analysis of political parties in the United States.Abstract:
American Political Parties is a core textbook on political parties in the United
States that places the US party system into a framework designed around the
disagreements between Alexander Hamilton and Thomas Jefferson. White and Kerbel argue
that the two-party system in the United States began with a common agreement on the key
values of freedom, individual rights, and equality of opportunity but that Hamilton and
Jefferson disagreed—often vehemently—over how to translate these ideals into an
acceptable form of governance. This text develops a unique historical perspective of US
party development using the disagreements between Alexander Hamilton and Thomas
Jefferson as a framework for analysis.read more