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Collapse of the Democratic Presidential Majority - Realignment, Dealignment, Electoral Change From Franklin Roosevelt

English · Paperback / Softback

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This book makes sense of electoral politics in terms of the tensions between realignment and dealignment. It combines analysis of presidential elections in the postwar world with theories of electoral change?showing how Reagan bridged the eras of re- and dealignment.

List of contents

Preface -- 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 -- Postscript 1996 -- Codes Used to Construct the Dichotomous Occupation Measure -- Appendix 2 -- Appendix 3 -- Appendix 4 -- Appendix 5 -- Appendix 6 -- Appendix 7

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David G Lawrence

Summary

This book makes sense of electoral politics in terms of the tensions between realignment and dealignment. It combines analysis of presidential elections in the postwar world with theories of electoral change-showing how Reagan bridged the eras of re- and dealignment.

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