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"""By attending closely to the historical variety of party formations in American politics, White and Kerbel incisively answer the three crucial questions laid out in their book's subtitle. They root their analysis of parties' functions and behavior in the messy contingencies of actual political history, connecting parties' early republican origins to contemporary hyperpolarization in novel and effective ways.""--Sam Rosenfeld, author of The Polarizers: Postwar Architects of Our Partisan Era"

By attending closely to the historical variety of party formations in American politics, White and Kerbel incisively answer the three crucial questions laid out in their book's subtitle. They root their analysis of parties' functions and behavior in the messy contingencies of actual political history, connecting parties' early republican origins to contemporary hyperpolarization in novel and effective ways. --Sam Rosenfeld, author of The Polarizers: Postwar Architects of Our Partisan Era

By attending closely to the historical variety of party formations in American politics, White and Kerbel incisively answer the three crucial questions laid out in their book's subtitle. They root their analysis of parties' functions and behavior in the messy contingencies of actual political history, connecting parties' early republican origins to contemporary hyperpolarization in novel and effective ways.--Sam Rosenfeld, author of The Polarizers: Postwar Architects of Our Partisan Era

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John Kenneth White is professor of politics at the Catholic University of America in Washington, DC. He is the author of What Happened to the Republican Party? and Barack Obama’s America: How New Conceptions of Race, Family, and Religion Ended the Reagan Era. Matthew R. Kerbel is professor of political science at Villanova University in Villanova, Pennsylvania. He is the author of nine books, including Netroots and Next Generation Netroots, both about the emergence of internet politics and political engagement.

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