Deferential-Participant Politics
The Early Republic's Political Culture, 1789-1840
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 3134097 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Ronald P Formisano (Clark University, corresponding author) |
| Year | 1974 |
| Volume | 68 |
| Issue | 2 |
| Pages | 473-487 |
| Publication date | 1974-06-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | American Political Science Review (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0003-0554 • E-ISSN: 1537-5943 |
| Publisher | Cambridge University Press (CUP) (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.2307/1959497 |
| OpenAlex | W4251933838 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 60 |
| References cited | 58 |
The concepts of "party" and "party system" may be obscuring the nature of early national political culture. The presence of a modern party ethos before the 1830s seems to be taken for granted, as are assumptions regarding the alleged benefits of party. Historians have not yet demonstrated, however, the many dimensions of institutionalized party behavior. Focus is recommended on three observable elements of party (after Sorauf): as organization, in office, in the electorate. Studies of party self-consciousness developing over the entire 1789-1840 period are necessary in various political units. Evidence is inconclusive, but weighs on balance against a first party system of Federalists and Republicans (1790s-1820s). While relatively stable elite coalitions and even mass cleavage patterns perhaps developed at staggered intervals in different arenas, especially during the war crisis period of 1809-1816, the norms of party did not take root and pervade the polity. The era to the 1820s was transitional, a deferential-participant phase of mixed political culture roughly comparable to England's after 1832. Theories relating party to democratization, national integration, and political development, should be reconsidered
Cleavage (geology · Democracy · Democratization · Elite · Ethos · Period (music · Political culture · Political economy · Political science · Politics · Polity · Sociology · European Political History Analysis · Historical Economic and Social Studies · Law · Scottish History and National Identity
Partisan Models and the Search for Party Effects in the US Senate
Interest Group Theory
The Party Faithful
How Parties Nominate Presidents
The Comparative Advantage of State Interest Organization Research
Theories of Parties
The Road Less Taken
Party Coalitions in the US Congress
Social and Economic Justice Movements and Organizations
Who Sings in the Heavenly Chorus?
Party Nominating Procedures and Recruitment—State and Local Level
Activists, Influence, and Representation in American Elections
Methodological Issues in the Study of Political Parties
Political Parties and Consultants
State Parties Research
The Mobilization and Influence of Business Interests
What a Difference Twenty-Five Years Makes
Interest Groups and Agendas
Interest Groups in American Elections
The State of Research on Political Parties and Interest Groups
The Evolution of National Party Organizations
Lobbying and Influence
Urban Interest Groups
The Evolution and Alteration of American Party Coalitions
The Pure Partisan Institution
Linking Political Parties and Interest Groups
The President, Party Politics, and Constitutional Development
Winning Isn't Everything
Methodological Perspectives on Interest Groups
American Political Parties
The Oxford handbook of American political parties and interest groups
Rethinking the First Party Era
Representing Public Opinion
Congressional Redistricting and Strategic Copartisans
Why Did the Whigs Die (and Why Didn't the Democrats)
Before the Countermajoritarian Difficulty
Reconstituting the Study of American Political Thought in a Regime-Change Perspective
The Making of an American House of Lords
Trial by Jury as “Mockery of Justice”
Moving Beyond the Canon of Traditional Constitutional History
The Vanguard of the Atlantic World
The New York State Legislature
The “Cement of Interest”
Congressional nominations and party emergence, 1788–1808
The Crisis of Authority in the Antebellum States
The feminization of liberty, domesticated virtue, and the reconstitution of power and authority in early American political discourse
Congressional Candidates in the Era of Party Ballots
Partisanship and Procedural Choice
Distributive politics, the electoral connection, and the antebellum US Congress
Examining the Electoral Connection Across Time
Assessing the Electoral Connection
Trends in Public Support for the American Party System
The Incomplete World of American Politics, 1815-1829
Money, Moral Authority, and the Politics of Creditworthiness
The State and the Emergence of the First American Party System
The Ritual of Happy Dying among Early American Methodists
The Concept of Political Culture
The Emergence of Political Parties in Congress, 1789-1803
The Birth of Pork
The Materiality of Ideology
The second American party system
Critical elections and the mainsprings of American politics.
Mass Politics
Elections and the political order
Party systems and voter alignments
The concept of Jacksonian democracy
The American party systems
Cleavages, ideologies, and party systems
Quantitative Approaches to Party Formation in the United States Congress
The Jeffersonian Republicans in Power
Politics in the Early American States
The Keystone in the Democratic Arch
The Jeffersonian Republicans
The Republicans and Federalists in Pennsylvania, 1790-1801
Macro-Quantitative Analysis
The Political Culture of the United States
The Virginia Federalists
Representation and Authority in Virginia from the Revolution to Reform
The Jeffersonian Crisis
The Land Office Business
Jefferson and Civil Liberties
History of American Presidential Elections
The Passing of the Aristocracy
Consensus or Conflict? Political Behavior in the State Legislatures during the Jacksonian Era
Historian's Guide to Statistics
The Institutionalization of the U.S. House of Representatives
Early American Politics--The Search for Ideology
Political Parties in a New Nation
Politics and Society
Prologue to Democracy
Toward a Republican Synthesis
Party Formation in the United States Congress, 1789 to 1796
Social Structure and Political Participation
Politics Without Parties
Party Effort and Its Impact on the Vote
Securing the Revolution
The Salience of American State Politics
Suffrage and Representation in Massachusetts
Quantification in American History
American Political Parties and the American System
Modernization and the Modern Personality in Early America, 1600-1865
The American Party Systems
A Salience Dimension of Politics for the Study of Political Culture
Party Unity and the Decision for War in the House of Representatives, 1812
Republican Thought and the Political Violence of the 1790s
Political Character, Antipartyism and the Second Party System
The Democratic Republicans of New York. The Origins, 1763-1797
To the Hartford Convention
The Federalist Period as an Age of Passion
The Birth of Mass Political Parties
Political Mobilization
Patrons, Patronage, and Political Parties
| Unique citing works | 60 |
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| Citations per year | 1,18 |
| Citation span | 1975 - 2025 (51) |
| Citation velocity | recent |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 60 |