Political Groups, Parties, and Organizations that Shaped America: An Encyclopedia and Document Collection [3 volumes]

This three-volume set explores the multiple roles that parties and interest groups have played in American politics from the nation’s beginnings to the present.

• Provides expert analysis of the emergence and effect of parties and interest groups on the American political system

• Offers a broader and more complete understanding of both parties and interest groups in American politics than has been offered previously

• Helps readers to move beyond an event-driven knowledge of parties and interest groups to explore the systematic and structural bases for interest group and party behavior

• Includes primary source documents that allow readers to discover for themselves the means by which groups or parties place items on the public agenda and thereby come to (or sometimes fail to) shape our governmental system