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The politics that make presidents: Third party issue influence and presidential political change.

Record Type:	Language materials, printed : Monograph/item
Title/Author:	The politics that make presidents: Third party issue influence and presidential political change./
Author:	Jones, Evan Spencer.
Description:	332 p.
Notes:	Adviser: Kenneth Mayer.
Contained By:	Dissertation Abstracts International69-05A.
Subject:	Biography. -
Online resource:	http://pqdd.sinica.edu.tw/twdaoeng/servlet/advanced?query=3314215
ISBN:	9780549633365

The politics that make presidents: Third party issue influence and presidential political change.
Jones, Evan Spencer.

The politics that make presidents: Third party issue influence and presidential political change. - 332 p.

Adviser: Kenneth Mayer.

Thesis (Ph.D.)--The University of Wisconsin - Madison, 2008.

What effect do third parties have on the process of political change in American politics? The conventional wisdom in political science sees third parties as issue "innovators" or "educators." (Hazlett) Unable to win, third parties leave a mark by injecting new issues into the major party dialogue. The conventional wisdom leaves a cloudy picture of third parties. Do third parties simply introduce issues that are eventually appropriated by major party officeholders, or can they play a causal role in the process of political change?

ISBN: 9780549633365Subjects--Topical Terms:

531296
Biography.

The politics that make presidents: Third party issue influence and presidential political change.
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520 $a What effect do third parties have on the process of political change in American politics? The conventional wisdom in political science sees third parties as issue "innovators" or "educators." (Hazlett) Unable to win, third parties leave a mark by injecting new issues into the major party dialogue. The conventional wisdom leaves a cloudy picture of third parties. Do third parties simply introduce issues that are eventually appropriated by major party officeholders, or can they play a causal role in the process of political change?
520 $a Using the conventional wisdom as a point of departure, this work specifies the conditions in which third parties should exert direct issue influence on major party officeholders. In the tradition of Anthony Downs, I assume that the overwhelming impetus behind the political behavior of ambitious incumbents is the desire for re-election. Ideologically adjacent third parties jeopardize incumbent re-election by promoting issue positions that attract a key bloc of voters. Such third parties create the conditions for issue influence---a phenomenon where ambitious incumbents approximate third party issue positions in order retain office.
520 $a Third party issue influence has great potential to further the disciplinary conception of political change, because third party issue influence can create political change by forcing incumbents to create outcomes on third party issues that will stymie the third party threat. Electoral data show that the modern presidency is the best testing ground for a predictive theory of third party issue influence. I apply the theory to three threatened Presidents: Harry Truman, Richard Nixon, and Jimmy Carter.
520 $a Relying on primary data from the Truman, Nixon and Carter presidential libraries that reveal presidential motivations for action on third party issues, I find that issue influence is a direct, causal and predictable phenomenon, amenable to major paradigms of American political change scholarship. I also find that Presidents are often reluctant to endure the costs associated with political change unless truly threatened by a third party, and that issue-specific third parties have great potential to initiate political change in an "interest group society" (Berry) where defined blocs of issue-driven voters abound.
520 $a References. Berry, Jeffrey. 1997. The Interest Group Society. New York: Longman. Downs, Anthony. 1957. An Economic Theory of Democracy. New York: Harper and Row. Hazlett, Joseph M. 1991. The Libertarian Party and other Minor Political Parties in the United States. London: McFarland and Co.
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