TY - BOOK AU - Doherty,David AU - Dowling,Conor M. AU - Miller,Michael Gerald TI - Small power: how local parties shape elections T2 - Oxford scholarship online SN - 9780197605042 (ebook) : AV - JK2271 .D64 2022 U1 - 324.273 23 PY - 2022/// CY - New York, NY PB - Oxford University Press KW - Political party organization KW - United States KW - Political campaigns KW - Elections N1 - Also issued in print: 2022; Includes bibliographical references and index; Specialized N2 - The authors examine an important, but understudied, aspect of American political parties: the local organizations that are responsible for increasing the party's community visibility, recruiting first-time candidates, and providing the crucial labor that campaigns use to mobilize voters. This book argues that despite overseeing small geographies, the leaders of these local parties wield significant power in American politics to shape statewide and federal campaigns UR - https://go.openathens.net/redirector/lords.parliament.uk?url=http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780197605004.001.0001 ER -