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BOOKS AND MONOGRAPHS (Click on underlined titles for information, texts)
2024
The Democratic Evolution: From Slavery to Equality, 1828-2024 (New York: Columbia, forthcoming)
Analyzes 3.392 planks from all 45 Democratic platforms (1840-2016) across three eras of Democratic party politics: States Rights (1828-1896), Cooperative Federalism (1900-1948), and National Authority (1952-2024).
2022
The Republican Evolution: From Governing Party to Antigovernment Party, 1860-2020 (New York: Columbia University Press, 2022)
Analyzes 2,7222 planks from all 41 Republican platforms (1856-2016) across three eras of Republican party politics:Nationalism (1860-1924), Neoliberalism (1928-1960), and Ethnocentrism (1964-2020).

2021

A Tale of Two Parties: Living Amongst Democrats and Reublicans Since 1952 (New York: Routledge, 2021)
Many figuress detail the social bases of the Democratic and Republican parties, using all 18 American National Election Studies on presidential elections from 1952 to 2020. Party identifiers are classified by region, economic status, education, urban-rural, religion, ethnicity, and ideology. Data are presented two ways: by percentages of each groupidentifying each party, and by the percentages of each party that comes from each group.
2016
American Parties in Context: Comparative and Historical Analysis (New York: Routledge, 2016; with Robert Harmel and Matthew Gieber.)
Considers the 1950 APSA report on "Responsible Parties" in the light of new evidence from the United States and across the world.

2013

The Social Bases of Political Parties: Democrats and Republicans, 1952-2012 and 2032. (Roseville, MN: Kenneth Janda 2013)
This is an interactive Apple iBook, like an ebook but runs only on Macintosh computers and iPads (The link goes to a full-text PDF of the Apple iBook.). (Al

1982

Political Parties and Their Environment: Limits to Reform? New York: Longman, 1982; with Robert Harmel).
Studies whether the United States can develop and support more "Responsible Parties," as urged in the 1950 APSA Report. This link goes to a complete copy of the book.
Articles and Book Chapters

2013

"Innovations in Information Technology in American Party Politics Since 1960," World Social Science Forum Montreal, October 12-15, 2013.
Surveys the history of computer usage in party politics and campaigns. Published in English in the Russian-language Proceedings of the Conference on "Political Design in Social Communications," Moscow, October 31-November 1, 2013, published in ­¢­ï­€­ù­û­õ­û­ì­ò­Ø ­ò ­û­Ý­ì­ê­ù­ò­ó­ê­¶­ò­Ø ­¾‹ã­ë­æ‹Ä­‡‹ã x ­ö­û­ú­ü­ê­ù­ò­ô '­ó­ê­Ý­£­ë­ï­ñ­ù­´­ô ­ò ­û­¢­ï­ß­ï­°­¢­í­ï­ù­ù­´­ô ­û­ü­´­¢ (TECHNOLOGY AND ORGANIZATION SELECTED x COMPANIES' FOREIGN AND DOMESTIC EXPERIENCE), (Moscow, 2013), pp. 141-173; also in Guy Lachapelle and Philippe J. Maarek (eds), Political Parties in the Digital Age: The Impact of New Technologies in Politics (Oldenbourg: De Gruyter, 2015), pp. 9-41.
 
"Now Playing on an iPad Near You: The Social Bases of Political Parties," Vox Pop, 32 (Summer, 2013), 1-3.
A note on creating the 2013 Apple iBooklisted above. An iBook is like an eBook butit runs only on iPads and Macintosh computers.

2009

"Party Politics and POP," in Party Politics, (May, 2009), 259-263.
Describes how the journal, Party Politics became associated with the Political Organizations and Parties Section of the American Political Science Association.

2008

"Founding POP: The Origins of Our APSA Section," VOX POP, 26 (Spring, 2008), pp. 1 and 3.
Describes the origin and history of the Political Organizations and Parties Section of the American Political Science Association

2005

"Financing Election Campaigns in the United States," in Election Management (Seoul: National Electoral Commission, 2005), pp. 195-213.
Summarizes state laws on financing election campaign and U.S. national election finance laws.

1993

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(TECHNOLOGY AND ORGANIZATION, SELECTED COMPANIES' FOREIGN AND DOMESTIC EXPERIENCE) (Moscow, 1993), pp. 33-38.

Russsian translation of Chapter 8, "Political Parties," in Janda, Berry, Goldman, The Challenge of Democracy, 2nd Ed. (Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1989).

1992

"The American Constitutional Framework and the Structure of American Political Parties," in Peter F. Nardulli (ed.), The Constitution nd American Political Development: An Institutinal Perspective, (Urbana and Chicago: University of Illinois Press, 1992), pp. 179-206.
Focuses on federalism and the separation of powers, which are so frequently cited in the early and contemporary literature.

1980

"A Comparative Analysis of Party Organizations--U.S., Europe, and the World," in William J. Crotty (ed.), The Party Symbol. San Francisco: W. H. Freeman, 1980. Pp. 339-358
Finds that American parties are less centralized than European partues, but not less organized.
 
"Primrose Paths to Political Reform: Reforming v. Strengthening American Parties," in William J. Crotty (ed.), Paths to Political Reform. Lexington, Massachusetts: Lexington Books, 1980. Pp. 309-347.
Examines four theoretical problems in party reform.
 
 
 
Papers and Addresses

2013

"The Social Bases of U.S. Political Parties: 1952-2012, Social Support and Political Interests,"
Paper presented at the 2013 Meeting of the Midwest Political Science Association, Chicago, Illinois

1991

"Presidential Elections in Russia and the United States: Is Majority Popular Vote Desirable?"
Paper delivered at the Conference on Political Analysis, Institute of Socio-Political Research, Moscow, December 10-14, 1991.

1988

"The American Constitutional Framework and the Structure of American Political Parties,"
paper delivered at the Conference on The Constitution and the American Political Process, University of Illinois, December 6-8, 1988. (see publication)

1981

"Let's Have a Party: The Republican Presence in the 1980 Election,"
prepared for delivery at the 1981 Meeting of the Illinois Political Science Association, Loyola University, Chicago, October 23 24.

1977

" A Survey of American Political Parties in World Perspective," paper presented for discussion at The Center for the Study of Democratic Institutions in Chicago, Summer, 1977.
This paper looks at the Republican and Democratic parties in the context of political parties across the world, providing a broad framework for evaluating "how they are" in comparison with parties elsewhere.

1974

"American and European Political Parties Compared on Organization, Centralization, Coherence, and Involvement,"
paper delivered at the 1974 Annual Meeting of the American Political Science Association, August 29-September 2, Chicago, Illinois
 
Book Reviews

2006

John C. Green and Rick Farmer (eds.),
The State of the Parties: The Changing Role of Contemporary American Parties, 4th ed. (Lanham, MD: Rowman & Littlefield, 2003), in Party Politics, 12 (May, 2006), pp. 441-443.

1996

Herbert E. Alexander (ed.)
"Campaign Money: Reform and Reality in the States," Daily Northwestern (December 1, 1996)

1994

Charles D. Ameringer (ed.),
Political Parties of the Americas, 1980s to 1990s: Canada, Latin America, and the West Indies (Westport, CT: Greenwood Press, 1992). In Journal of Politics, 56 (May, 1994), 556 558.

1988

Warren E. Miller and M. Kent Jennings.
Parties in Transition: A Longitudinal Study of Party Elites and Party Supporters.
(New York: Russell Sage Foundation, 1986). In Congress and the Presidency, 15 (Spring, 1988), 107-110.

1982

Jerome M. Clubb, William H. Flanigan, and Nancy H. Zingale.
Partisan Realignment: Voters, Parties and Government in American History.
(Beverly Hills, California: Sage Library of Social Research, Vol. 108, 1980). In The American Political Science Review, 76 (March, 1982).