Daniel Klinghard is Assistant Professor of Political Science at the College of the Holy Cross in Worcester, Massachusetts.

• Introduction; 1. Localism and the Jacksonian mode; 2. The nineteenth-century associational explosion and the challenge to the Jacksonian mode; 3. Organizational transformation and the national parties; 4. National campaign clubs and the party-in-the-electorate; 5. Grover Cleveland and the emergence of presidential party leadership; 6. Party transformation in the Republican Party; Conclusion.

“In recent years, our understanding of long-term change within America’s political parties has been increasing greatly. Rather simplistic accounts of how the decentralized 19th-century parties had transformed themselves into the more centralized and candidate-dominated parties of the later 20th century have been superseded by more subtle explanations. Daniel Klinghard’s excellent book represents an important contribution to the research in political science and political history that has illuminated the long gestation period of much of the party transformation. Klinghard shows how moves towards more nationalized party organizations started early in the 1880s, and also how late 19th-century developments were a springboard for change in the next century. It is a book that displays great insight into the complexities of party politics at the end of the so-called ‘party period.’” – Alan Ware, University of Oxford

Daniel Klinghard is Assistant Professor of Political Science at the College of the Holy Cross in Worcester, Massachusetts.

• Introduction; 1. Localism and the Jacksonian mode; 2. The nineteenth-century associational explosion and the challenge to the Jacksonian mode; 3. Organizational transformation and the national parties; 4. National campaign clubs and the party-in-the-electorate; 5. Grover Cleveland and the emergence of presidential party leadership; 6. Party transformation in the Republican Party; Conclusion.

“In recent years, our understanding of long-term change within America’s political parties has been increasing greatly. Rather simplistic accounts of how the decentralized 19th-century parties had transformed themselves into the more centralized and candidate-dominated parties of the later 20th century have been superseded by more subtle explanations. Daniel Klinghard’s excellent book represents an important contribution to the research in political science and political history that has illuminated the long gestation period of much of the party transformation. Klinghard shows how moves towards more nationalized party organizations started early in the 1880s, and also how late 19th-century developments were a springboard for change in the next century. It is a book that displays great insight into the complexities of party politics at the end of the so-called ‘party period.’” – Alan Ware, University of Oxford

Daniel Klinghard is Assistant Professor of Political Science at the College of the Holy Cross in Worcester, Massachusetts.

• Introduction; 1. Localism and the Jacksonian mode; 2. The nineteenth-century associational explosion and the challenge to the Jacksonian mode; 3. Organizational transformation and the national parties; 4. National campaign clubs and the party-in-the-electorate; 5. Grover Cleveland and the emergence of presidential party leadership; 6. Party transformation in the Republican Party; Conclusion.

“In recent years, our understanding of long-term change within America’s political parties has been increasing greatly. Rather simplistic accounts of how the decentralized 19th-century parties had transformed themselves into the more centralized and candidate-dominated parties of the later 20th century have been superseded by more subtle explanations. Daniel Klinghard’s excellent book represents an important contribution to the research in political science and political history that has illuminated the long gestation period of much of the party transformation. Klinghard shows how moves towards more nationalized party organizations started early in the 1880s, and also how late 19th-century developments were a springboard for change in the next century. It is a book that displays great insight into the complexities of party politics at the end of the so-called ‘party period.’” – Alan Ware, University of Oxford