Party Organization I

For Wednesday, Hershey ch. 5.

The APSA report;

• 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" and machines (See Hershey 62-64)

Plunkitt of Tammny Hall (esp. pp. 1-2)

Short video on immigrants and machines

State Party Organizations (and an aside on citing Wikipedia):

• GOP state parties
• Democratic state parties

Sometimes extreme figures take over party organizations

State Election Law

• Partisan v. Nonpartisan local elections  and 2021 data
• Primaries
• Contribution limits

Supreme Court decisions curb patronage

Party Services and Party Money (Hershey pp. 87-88)

Example of contemporary state party activity:

 

National Committees

DNC and RNC

Hill Committees

DCCC and NRCC

DSCC and NRSC

The 527 Groups 

• RGA: Republican Governors Association
• DGA: Democratic Governors Association
• RAGA: Republican Attorneys General Association
• DAGA: Democratic Attorneys General Association
• RSLC:  Republican State Leadership Committee 
• DLCC: Democratic Legislative Campaign Committee