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The collapse of the Democratic presidential majority : realignment, dealignment, and electoral change from Franklin Roosevelt to Bill Clinton
- Title
- The collapse of the Democratic presidential majority : realignment, dealignment, and electoral change from Franklin Roosevelt to Bill Clinton / David G. Lawrence.
- Author
- Lawrence, David G., 1947-
- Publication
- Boulder, CO : Westview Press, 1996.
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- Description
- xv, 215 pages : illustrations; 25 cm.
- Summary
- American electoral politics since World War II stubbornly refuse to fit the theories of political scientists. The long collapse of the Democratic presidential majority does not look much like the classic realignments of the past: The Republicans made no corresponding gains in sub-presidential elections and never won the loyalty of a majority of the electorate in terms of party identification. And yet, the period shows a stability of Republican dominance quite at odds with the volatility and unpredictability central to the competing theory of dealignment.
- The Collapse of the Democratic Presidential Majority makes sense of the last half century of American presidential elections as part of a transition from a world in which realignment was still possible to a dealigned political universe. The book combines analysis of presidential elections in the postwar world with theories of electoral change - showing how Reagan bridged the eras of re- and dealignment and why Clinton was elected despite the postwar trend.
- Series Statement
- Transforming American politics
- Uniform Title
- Transforming American politics
- Subject
- USA Präsident
- Since 1945
- Presidents > United States > Election
- Elections > United States
- Party affiliation > United States
- Political parties > United States
- Elections
- Party affiliation
- Political parties
- Politics and government
- Presidents > Election
- Präsidentenwahl
- Wähler
- Parteiidentifikation
- Democratic Party
- Republican Party
- Verkiezingen
- Partijleden
- Geschichte 1933-1996
- United States > Politics and government > 1945-1989
- United States > Politics and government > 1989-
- United States
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 199-207) and index.
- Contents
- Introduction -- The collapse of the Democratic presidential majority -- The decline of New Deal economic cleavage: social class and issue salience -- Decreasingly latent cleavages: race and the Roosevelt coalition from 1948 to 1972 -- The emergence of the second mini-realignment: ideological extremity and Democratic defection -- The fragile extension of the second mini-realignment: retrospective voting and the politics of prosperity -- Mondale's revenge: ideology and retrospective evaluations in 1992 -- Conclusion: realignment, dealignment, and electoral change from Roosevelt to Clinton.
- ISBN
- 0813389844
- 9780813389844
- LCCN
- 96010676
- OCLC
- ocm34320221
- 34320221
- SCSB-14629815
- Owning Institutions
- Princeton University Library