Why No Parties?: Investigating the Disappearance of Democrat-Whig Divisions in the Confederacy

Abstract

For a discussion of the linkage between partisan goals and institutional change, see Binder, Minority Rights, Majority Rule, 10-12. 8. This expansion of the federal government's role in the nation's economic development, and the policies that it involved, became known as the "American System." 9. Aldrich, Why Parties?, 65, 71-72.