EBOOK Engines of Change:Party Factions in American Politics, 1868-2010

In Engines of Change, which is part the Oxford Studies in Postwar American        Political Development series, Daniel DiSalvo provides the first full account of the        role of these national intra-party "e;factions"e; in American politics. A faction, as        defined here, is a party sub-unit that has enough ideological consistency,        organizational capacity, and temporal durability to sustain intra-party conflict.          Drawing from the last 150 years of American political history, DiSalvo explains how        factions have shaped the parties' ideologies, impacted presidential nominations,        structured patterns of presidential governance, and impacted the development of the        American state. He demonstrates that factions can acquire the power to shape the        parties' ideologies, impact presidential nominations, structure the patterns of        presidential governance, and impact the development of the American state. Indeed,        factions are often just as or more important than the parties themselves in driving        political change. Sweeping in scope, Engines of Change promises to reshape our        understanding of the forces most responsible for driving political change in modern        American history.