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Date:         Fri, 29 Oct 1993 13:40:35 CDT
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Subject:      political party law

Jo Freeman <JFRBC%CUNYVM@UICVM.CC.UIC.EDU> writes as follows:

I'm looking for material on the history of the legal regulation of political parties. States were particularly active doing this during the early twentieth century as part of the Progressive Movement's attempts at institutional reform.

Has anyone written about this?

>>> Item number 243, dated 93/10/29 21:24:25 -- ALL

Date:         Fri, 29 Oct 1993 21:24:25 CDT
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Yes, the work of Paul Kleppner, while often portrayed as quantitative, is also heavily concerned with election and voting reform in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Kermit L. Hall

In Message Fri, 29 Oct 1993 13:40:35 CDT, cfcrw%ecnuxa.BITNET@uga.cc.uga.edu writes:

> Jo Freeman <JFRBC%CUNYVM@UICVM.CC.UIC.EDU> writes as follows: >
> I'm looking for material on the history of the legal regulation of > political parties. States were particularly active doing this > during the early twentieth century as part of the Progressive > Movement's attempts at institutional reform. >
> Has anyone written about this?
Kermit L. Hall AS_KLH@vax1.utulsa.edu

>>> Item number 259, dated 93/11/04 07:02:04 -- ALL

Date:         Thu, 4 Nov 1993 07:02:04 CST
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Subject:      POLITICAL PARTY LAW

>Subject: political party law
>
> Jo Freeman <JFRBC%CUNYVM@UICVM.CC.UIC.EDU> writes as follows: >
> I'm looking for material on the history of the legal regulation of > political parties. States were particularly active doing this > during the early twentieth century as part of the Progressive > Movement's attempts at institutional reform. >
> Has anyone written about this?
>

Look at the work of Peter Argersinger, Jerrold Rusk, John F. Reynolds for specific, nuts-and-bolts changes in electoral practices affecting the parties. They look at (and explain) specific changes, like the Australian ballot, direct primary, etc.

For more theoretical work on the subject, look at Walter Dean Burnham, Stein Rokkan, Sam Hays, Paul Kleppner's work.

Note there is some disagreement between several of these on the actual behavioral effects of the changes.

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Date:         Mon, 8 Nov 1993 12:35:50 CST
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This message was originally submitted by MichaelB@HUMANITIES1.COHUMS.OHIO-STATE .EDU.

           For the framework and effect of Progressive-era political
           party reform, see Sam Hays's classic "The Politics of REform
           in Municipal Government in the Progressive Era," Pacific
           Northwest Quarterly, 55 (Oct 1964): 157-69, and Michael
           McGerr, The Decline of Popular Politics (NY: Oxford UP,
           1986).

           I think Leon Epstein, the eminent political scientist, was
           working on the history of the regulation of parties about a
           decade ago.  You might see if there is some information
           on that in his Political Parties in the American
           Mold, which I have never read.

           Les Benedict
           History, OSU
           benedict.3@osu.edu
           fax: (614) 292-2282