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Sectionalism tends strongly to depress party organization because elections in one-party areas are won not by competing with the opposition party but by eliminating it.

Elmer Eric Schattschneider

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Elmer Eric Schattschneider (August 11, 1892 – March 4, 1971) was an American political scientist.

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Alternative Names: E.E. Schattschneider

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