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Cover -- Half Title -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Dedication -- Table of Contents -- List of Figures and Tables -- Prologue -- Acknowledgments -- 1 Political Science and the Study of Parties: Sorting Out Interpretations of Party Response -- 2 The Diminishing Oddness of American Political Parties -- 3 Attempting to Build a Winner: Parties and the Crafting of Electoral Coalitions -- 4 Party Activists, Ideological Extremism, and Party Polarization -- 5 Local Party Viability, Goals, and Objectives in the Information Age -- 6 National Parties in the Twenty-First Century -- 7 Parties and the Presidential Nominating Contests: The Battles to Control the Nominating Calendar -- 8 Political Parties and Campaign Finance: Challenges and Adaptations -- 9 Boehner's Dilemma: A Tempest in a Tea Party? -- 10 Political Parties and the Media: The Parties Respond to Technological Innovation -- 11 Congressional Parties and the Policy Process -- 12 Partisan Presidential Leadership: The President's Appointees -- 13 American Political Parties in an Age of Polarization -- About the Editors and Contributors -- Index