Author Meets Critics for Rachel Blum, How the Tea Party Captured the GOP: Insurgent Factions in American Politics

Session Submission Type: Roundtable

Brief Overview

Distinguished panelists will discuss How the Tea Party Captured the GOP, which treats the Tea Party as a faction within the Republican Party that organized a “party within a party” to take over the GOP and reshape it, setting it on its current path.

Section

• 51. Political Parties & Interest Groups

Chair

• Christina Wolbrecht, University of Notre Dame

Participants

• Rachel Marie Blum, University of Oklahoma

• Marty Cohen, James Madison University

• Melissa Deckman, Washington College

• Dan DiSalvo, CUNY City College

• Theda Skocpol, Harvard University