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The current crisis in American politics

Title
The current crisis in American politics / Walter Dean Burnham.
Author
Burnham, Walter Dean.
Publication
New York : Oxford University Press, 1982.

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Description
ix, 330 pages; 24 cm
Summary
Discusses United States voting patterns, the decline of party loyalty, and the low level of voter participation and examines the rise to power of the Reagan administration.
Subject
  • USA Präsident
  • Umschulungswerkstätten für Siedler und Auswanderer Bitterfeld
  • Political parties > United States
  • Elections > United States
  • Voting > United States
  • Political participation > United States
  • Elections
  • Political participation
  • Political parties
  • Voting
  • Geschichte
  • Krise
  • Parteiensystem
  • Politik
  • Politische Beteiligung
  • Präsidentenwahl
  • Wahlverhalten
  • Wahl
  • Partei
  • United States
  • USA
Note
  • Includes index.
Bibliography (note)
  • Bibliography: p. 321-322.
Contents
pt. 1. Some Themes in American Electoral History -- The Changing Shape of the American Political Universe -- Theory and Voting Research -- Party Systems and the Political Process -- pt. 2. Who Votes? Who Doesn't? Does It Matter? -- The Appearance and Disappearance of the American Voter -- Shifting Patterns of Congressional Voting Participation -- pt. 3. Premonitions of Upheaval: The 1970s -- Insulation and Responsiveness in Congressional Elections -- The 1976 Election: Has the Crisis Been Adjourned? -- pt. 4. The 1980s Come Next -- Americans Politics in the 1980s -- Into the 1980s with Ronald Reagan.
ISBN
  • 0195032195
  • 9780195032192
  • 0195032209
  • 9780195032208
LCCN
82006511
OCLC
  • ocm08431941
  • 8431941
  • SCSB-50851
Owning Institutions
Princeton University Library