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The Electoral Relevance of Local Party Organizations

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  • Frendreis, John P.
  • Gibson, James L.
  • Vertz, Laura L.

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We examine the role that one group of party units—county party organizations—play in electoral politics, based on electoral and county party organizational data collected during 1980–84. Local party chairs report their organizations are involved in a number of electorally relevant activities, including candidate recruitment, joint planning with candidate organizations, and various independent campaign activities. The data demonstrate that county party organizations are indeed effective. The probability of a minority party's running candidates for lower-level offices, which appears to contribute to higher vote totals for higher-level offices, is a function of the local strength and activity level of the party; whereas direct effects are seen to be small. These data suggest that even if mainly at the candidate recruitment stage of the process, party organizations play an important role in local electoral politics.

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  • Frendreis, John P. & Gibson, James L. & Vertz, Laura L., 1990. "The Electoral Relevance of Local Party Organizations," American Political Science Review, Cambridge University Press, vol. 84(1), pages 225-235, March.
    • Handle: RePEc:cup:apsrev:v:84:y:1990:i:01:p:225-235_19
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    1. Shannon Jenkins & Douglas D. Roscoe, 2014. "Parties as the Political Safeguards of Federalism: The Impact of Local Political Party Activity on National Elections," Publius: The Journal of Federalism, CSF Associates Inc., vol. 44(3), pages 519-540.
    2. Anna L. Harvey, 2001. "Partisanship As A Social Convention," Rationality and Society, , vol. 13(4), pages 462-504, November.
    3. Murray Low, 2007. "Political Parties and the City: Some Thoughts on the Low Profile of Partisan Organisations and Mobilisation in Urban Political Theory," Environment and Planning A, , vol. 39(11), pages 2652-2667, November.
    4. Georgia Kernell, 2016. "Strategic party heterogeneity," Journal of Theoretical Politics, , vol. 28(3), pages 408-430, July.

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