Details

Subject(s)

• Political action committees—United States—History [Browse]
• Campaign funds—United States—History [Browse]
• Lobbying—United States—History [Browse]
• Pressure groups—United States—History [Browse]

Series

• Oxford studies in postwar American political development [More in this series]
• Oxford scholarship online [More in this series]
• Studies in postwar American political development

Summary note

This text explores the origins of political action committees (PACs) in the mid-twentieth century and their impact on the American party system. It argues that PACs were envisaged, from the outset, as tools for effecting ideological change in the two main parties, thus helping to foster the partisan polarization we see today. It shows how the very first PAC, created by the Congress of Industrial Organizations (CIO) in 1943, explicitly set out to liberalize the Democratic Party by channeling campaign resources to liberal Democrats while trying to defeat conservative Southern Democrats.

Notes

Also issued in print: 2020.

Bibliographic references

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Target audience

Specialized.

Source of description

Description based on online resource; title from home page (viewed on August 27, 2020).

ISBN

9780190075545 (ebook) :

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