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Modern presidents are usually depicted as party "predators" who neglect their parties, exploit them for personal advantage, or undercut their organizational capacities. Challenging this view, Presidential Party Building demonstrates that every Republican president since Dwight D. Eisenhower worked to build his party into a more durable political organization while every Democratic president refused to do the same. Yet whether they supported their party or stood in its way, each president contributed to the distinctive organizational trajectories taken by the two parties in the modern era. Unearthing new archival evidence, Daniel Galvin reveals that Republican presidents responded to their party's minority status by building its capacities to mobilize voters, recruit candidates, train activists, provide campaign services, and raise funds. From Eisenhower's "Modern Republicanism" to Richard Nixon's "New Majority" to George W. Bush's hopes for a partisan realignment, Republican presidents saw party building as a means of forging a new political majority in their image. Though they usually met with little success, their efforts made important contributions to the GOP's cumulative organizational development. Democratic presidents, in contrast, were primarily interested in exploiting the majority they inherited, not in building a new one. Until their majority disappeared during Bill Clinton's presidency, Democratic presidents eschewed party building and expressed indifference to the long-term effects of their actions. Bringing these dynamics into sharp relief, Presidential Party Building offers profound new insights into presidential behavior, party organizational change, and modern American political development.

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"Over the last half century, two major historical developments have transformed the nature of workers' rights and fundamentally altered the ability of low-wage workers to combat their exploitation. First, employment law-rather than labor law-now serves as the primary basis of workers' rights. Second, small, under-resourced, overburdened nonprofit worker organizations ("alt-labor groups")-rather than large, well-endowed labor unions-are now at the vanguard of organizing vulnerable, marginalized workers. Using diverse data and multiple methodological approaches, Daniel J. Galvin unpacks these developments and clarifies the links between them. Galvin shows that alt-labor groups have turned increasingly to public policy to scale up their work-and met with surprising success. This he attributes to their efforts to augment and leverage their strengths: their deep roots in local communities, their commitment to year-round organizing, their unique position within the labor movement, and the flexibility of their organizational forms. A growing number of alt-labor groups have also become more politically engaged, endeavoring to alter the contours of their political environments. They seek to enhance their probabilities of policy success while also incrementally shifting the balance of power over the long term. Alt-labor's turn to policy and politics does not resolve the groups' many internal tensions, organizational challenges, or structural constraints; rather, it reflects them and may be understood as a response to them-while creating new challenges for the groups. How can alt-labor groups manage these tensions, build capacity, develop resilience, compensate for their limitations, and maximize their strengths while making progress for their members? This is the question that animates the book"--

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