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The collapse of the Democratic presidential majority : realignment, dealignment, and electoral change from Franklin Roosevelt to Bill Clinton

Author: David G Lawrence
Publisher: Boulder, CO : Westview Press, 1996.
Series: Transforming American politics.
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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
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Lawrence, David G., 1947-
Collapse of the Democratic presidential majority.
Boulder, CO : Westview Press, 1996
(OCoLC)604019190
Online version:
Lawrence, David G., 1947-
Collapse of the Democratic presidential majority.
Boulder, CO : Westview Press, 1996
(OCoLC)607653044
Document Type: Book
All Authors / Contributors: David G Lawrence
ISBN: 0813389844 9780813389844
OCLC Number: 34320221
Description: xv, 215 p. : ill. ; 25 cm.
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.
Series Title: Transforming American politics.
Responsibility: David G. Lawrence.
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Abstract:

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.

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