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Introduction: Turning Lemons into Lemonade? Party Strategy as Compensation for External Stresses

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Rackaway and Rice review the tripod model of political parties and discuss how changes in the electorate and campaigns challenge its stability. They focus specifically on how the 2016 election brought new challenges to the Republican and Democratic parties, with candidates for their party’s nomination on both sides mounting significant challenges to the party establishment. These challenges require new strategic adaptations. The chapter concludes with an overview of the remainder of the book and the insights these chapters provide into the state of American political parties.

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  1. Department of Political Science, University of West Georgia, Carrollton, GA, USA

    Chapman Rackaway

  2. Department of Political Science, Southern Illinois University Edwardsville, Edwardsville, IL, USA

    Laurie L. Rice

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  1. Political Science, University of West Georgia, Carrollton, Georgia, USA

    Chapman Rackaway

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    Laurie L. Rice

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Rackaway, C., Rice, L.L. (2018). Introduction: Turning Lemons into Lemonade? Party Strategy as Compensation for External Stresses. In: Rackaway, C., Rice, L. (eds) American Political Parties Under Pressure. Palgrave Macmillan, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-60879-2_1

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