Douglas Jaenicke

• Three political systems
• American ideas of political party as theories of politics
• Comparing Anglo-American democracies
• Jesse Jackson's 1988 campaign
• Key political concepts and interpretations of political power
• Partisanship, Free Soil and defection
• Reuniting a party ruptured by the conflict over slavery
• The 1994 Congressional elections and their aftermath
• The disruption of the antebellum Democratic Party as a harbinger of Southern secession from the Union
• The Lecompton controversy revisited