Until recently, I worked in the Department of Politics and Government at Illinois State University. During the Fall 2011 semester, the students in my U.S. Political Parties course improved more than 60 articles about state-level Democratic and Republican Party organizations. I'm currently an assistant professor in the Political Science Department at Wabash College.
The footnote at the end of this sentence provides the citation for that really short book I recommended at the beginning of the semester.[1]
This sentence's footnote contains the citation for a journal article I wrote about political parties in the United States and South Africa.[2]
You can view the national Democratic and Republican (and some other) Parties' platforms from the 1840s through the present on the website cited in this sentence's footnote.[3]
The footnote in this sentence cites a recent newspaper article about political parties' role in the redistricting process.[4]
The best state party articles we could find (but they could still use some work)
^L. Sandy Maisel, American Political Parties and Elections. Oxford and New York: Oxford University Press, 2007.
^Shamira M. Gelbman and Jesse H. Rhodes, "Party Ideology, Grassroots Mobilization, and Party Strategy in South Africa and the United States, 1934-1948," Polity 43 (2011) pp. 154-78.
