Party Organization

Not a required reading, but if you want more detail on the responsible party school of government, the ur-text is

• American Political Science Association,  "Toward a More Responsible Two-party System. A Report of the Committee on Political Parties" (supplement to American Political Science Review 44, 3 (September, 1950)),http://www.uvm.edu/~dguber/POLS125/articles/apsa.pdf.

Volunteer for

• California GOP 
• California Democrats
• California Libertarians
• California Greens

"Honest Graft" (See Hershey 61-63)


State Party Organizations:

• GOP state parties
• Democratic state parties

State Election Law

• Partisan v. Nonpartisan local elections  and 2019 data
• Primaries
• Contribution limits

Supreme Court decisions curb patronage

Party Services and Party Money (Hershey p. 86)

Example of contemporary state party activity:

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National Committees

DNC and RNC

Hill Committees

DCCC and NRCC

DSCC and NRSC

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Political Participation Data