Title
Newt Gingrich and GOPAC: Training the Farm Team that helped win the Republican Revolution of 1994
Date Thesis Awarded
5-2011
Document Type
Honors Thesis
Degree Name
Bachelors of Arts (BA)
Department
Government
Advisor
John B. Gilmour
Committee Member
Ronald Rapoport
Abstract
The title of this thesis is "Newt Gingrich and GOPAC: Training the Farm Team that helped win the Republican Revolution of 1994". The thesis is that Newt Gingrich and GOPAC helped train a new generation of Republican leaders to raise money and run for office. These efforts slowly increased the number of Republicans in municipal and state level and had a 'trickle up effect'. This meant that their increased quality (i.e. previous electoral experience) helped them eventually take back Congress in 1994. I contend that their actions helped increase the number of state level Republicans and, with time, gave the Republicans a quality field of candidates to run for Congress. For this reason I think Pete du Pont and Newt Gingrich deserve the title "political entrepreneurs'.
Recommended Citation
Corkery, William, "Newt Gingrich and GOPAC: Training the Farm Team that helped win the Republican Revolution of 1994" (2011). Undergraduate Honors Theses. Paper 355.
https://scholarworks.wm.edu/honorstheses/355
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Comments
Thesis is part of Honors ETD pilot project, 2008-2013. Migrated from Dspace in 2016.