Background
Cotter, Cornelius Philip was born on March 18, 1924 in New York City. Son of Cornelius Joseph and Charlotte F. (Keller) Cotter.
( The national committees of the major political parties ...)
The national committees of the major political parties in the United States are symbols of party government. They carry forward a national heritage of peaceful change in national politics and administration. National committees are substitutes for party ideologies, yet they are pretty much headless, drifting organizations. Cotter and Hennessy explain why this is the case, arguing that the vagueness of the committees' responsibilities between presidential elections is one of the main sources of their limitations. Politics without Power explains what the national committees are, who belongs to them, where they are located in relation to other politically oriented organizations, what they do, and what steps might be taken to make better use of them. Although the authors' descriptions in this classic volume are straightforward, their recommendations are sweepingly bold. A few have been instituted in part, but most have yet to be adopted. If they were, it would completely change the makeup of the two committees and the political processes. Among their proposals are that the offi ces of national committeeman and committeewoman should be abolished, that the national chairman of the in-party continue to be chosen by the president or candidate, and the national chairman of the out-party be the titular head of that committee. The out-party should have a party council to interpret the platform and to recommend a platform to the national convention. There should be a tax credit for small contributions to the national committee or state committees, and each national committee would have its own building shared with the Congressional Campaign Committees. This book will interest political scientists, politicians, and other students of American politics and elections.
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( Contradicting the conventional political wisdom of the ...)
Contradicting the conventional political wisdom of the 1970s, which said state political parties were dormant and verging upon extinction, this book reveals that state party organizations actually grew stronger in the 1960s and 1970s. Reprinted with a new preface that covers changes in the 1980s in electoral politics, Party Organizations in American Politics encourages a reappraisal of scholarly treatment of party organization in political science.
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Cotter, Cornelius Philip was born on March 18, 1924 in New York City. Son of Cornelius Joseph and Charlotte F. (Keller) Cotter.
Bachelor, Stanford University, 1949. Master of Public Administration, Harvard University, 1951. Doctor of Philosophy, Harvard University, 1953.
Assistant, then associate professor, Stanford (California) U., 1953-1961; assistant to chairman (on leave from Stanford University), Republican National Committee, Washington, 1958-1960; assistant director, United States Commission Civil Rights, Washington, 1960-1963; professor political science, Wichita (Kansas) State University, 1963-1966; professor political science, University of Wisconsin, Milwaukee, 1966-1989; professor emeritus, University of Wisconsin, Milwaukee, since 1989. Instructor Columbia University, New York City, 1953-1954.
( Contradicting the conventional political wisdom of the ...)
( The national committees of the major political parties ...)
Member American Political Science Association, Midwest Political Science Association.
Married Rose Marie Ackerl, 1946 (divorced 1961). Children: Cornelia, Lawrence, Charles, Steven. Married Beverly Blair Cook, 1966.
Children: Linda, C. Randall, Gary A., Scott.