Political Parties

Illustrated Concepts, Facts, and Figures

• Party Organization in the United States

• Party Systems and Realignment

Audio Features

Video Features

• An End to Realignment? The Value of Realignment Theory and the Future of American Politics (Walter Dean Burnham - 4:52)

• Eisenhower and Nixon Receive the Republican Nomination, 1956 (2:10)

• Party Systems and Political Change in the U.S. (Daron Shaw - 5:14)

• Realignment and Political Change in the U.S. (Walter Dean Burnham - 3:04)

• Republican National Committee Film Decrying Roosevelt's 'Big Government', 1940 (2:28)

• The American Party Systems: Stages of Political Development (Walter Dean Burnham - 6:21)

• What is a party system about? The case of the System of '96 (Walter Dean Burnham - 6:05)

• What is the Democratic Party? (Barbara Jordan - 6:00)

Cartoon Features

• The Origins of the Donkey and Elephant

Image Features

• A Country Divided: The 2004 Presidential Election

• Democratic National Convention

• George Washington's Farewell Address

• Party Chairmen

• Party Logos

• Senate Majority Leaders

• The House Democratic Caucus

• The House Republican Conference

• The Peaceful Transferal of Power (1968)

• Third Party Effects

Web Resources

Glossary