Third Parties in America

Download or read book Third Parties in America written by Steven J. Rosenstone and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 1996-04-07 with total page 330 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 1. Tables and Figures -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Constraints on Third Parties -- 3. Third Parties of the Nineteenth Century -- 4. Independents of the Twentieth Century -- 5. A Theory of Third Party Voting -- 6. Why Citizens Vote for Third Parties -- 7. Candidate Mobilization -- 8. Major Parties, Minor Parties, and American Elections -- 9. H. Ross Perot -- Appendix A: Minor Party Presidential Candidates, 1840-1992 -- Appendix B: Description and Coding of Variables.