Party in the Street explores the interaction between political parties and social movements in the United States.

Michael T. Heaney is Assistant Professor of Organizational Studies and Political Science at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor. He has previously served as a Postdoctoral Fellow at the Center for the Study of American Politics at the Institution for Social and Policy Studies, Yale University, and as the William A. Steiger Fellow in the Congressional Fellowship Program at the American Political Science Association. His research has received funding from the National Science Foundation and has been published in a wide array of academic journals, such as the American Political Science Review, the American Journal of Sociology, Social Networks, and Perspectives on Politics.

Introduction; 1. The party in the street and its historical context; 2. Partisan politics at the water's edge?; 3. Multiple identities and party-movement interaction; 4. Identities and grassroots participation; 5. Identities and organizational action; 6. Identities and legislative agendas; 7. Beyond the antiwar movement and the Democratic Party; 8. Social movements in a polarized America; Epilogue.