Research Catalog

Title

• Electoral realignments : a critique of an American genre / David R. Mayhew.

Author

Mayhew, David R.

Publication

New Haven [Conn.] : Yale University Press, c2002.

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Description

viii, 174 p. : ill.; 22 cm.

Summary

"The study of electoral realignments is one of the most influential and intellectually stimulating enterprises undertaken by American political scientists. Realignment theory has been seen as a science able to predict changes, and generations of students, journalists, pundits, and political scientists have been trained to be on the lookout for "signs" of new electoral realignments. Now a major political scientist argues that the essential claims of realignment theory are wrong - that American elections, parties, and policy making are not (and never were) reconfigured according to the realignment calendar. David R. Mayhew is Sterling Professor of Political Science at Yale University."--Cover.

Series Statement

• The Yale ISPS series

Uniform Title

Yale ISPS series

Subject

• Elections > United States > History
• Party affiliation > United States > History
• Political parties > United States > History

Genre/Form

History

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

The Realignments Perspective -- Framing the Critique -- The Cyclical Dynamic -- Processes and Issues -- Policies and Democracy.

ISBN

0300093365

LCCN

^^2002016746

OCLC

48857528

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library