"In one integrated text, Political Parties, Interest Groups, and Political Campaigns covers the history and contemporary organization of political parties, the nature of the electoral system and modern. American election campaigns, and the activities of interest groups. This book is intended for use in courses dealing with political parties, campaigns and elections, or interest groups. Its central theme is that the actions of political parties and interest groups are no longer played out in separate spheres of the political world, but are increasingly bound together."--BOOK JACKET.