POLS 363 - American Political Parties

Credit(s): 3
3 hours lecture, 3 hours contact
The colonial and revolutionary background of the development of parties; the emergence of the Federalists and Democratic Republicans; party struggles of the Jacksonian era; the influence of the Civil War; the role of third parties in the 19th and 20th centuries; the impact of social, economic, and ideological forces on the two-party system in modern America.