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| Additional Physical Format: | Online version: Gimpel, James G. Patchwork nation. Ann Arbor : University of Michigan Press, c2003 (OCoLC)606984804 Online version: Gimpel, James G. Patchwork nation. Ann Arbor : University of Michigan Press, c2003 (OCoLC)607851925 |
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| Document Type: | Book |
| All Authors / Contributors: |
James G Gimpel; Jason E Schuknecht |
| ISBN: | 0472113143 9780472113149 |
| OCLC Number: | 51297135 |
| Description: | viii, 480 p. : maps ; 24 cm. |
| Contents: | Introduction: federalism, political identity, and American state politics -- Going inside states: the geography of local political behavior -- State politics and presidential voting, 1988---2000 -- California -- Florida -- Texas -- Colorado -- Minnesota -- Georgia -- Connecticut -- Maryland -- Oregon -- Michigan -- Illinois -- Sectionalism and political change in the states -- Appendix A. The challenge of ecological inference -- Appendix B. Complete ecological inference estimates, by state -- Appendix C. Complete voter transition results, by state. |
| Responsibility: | James G. Gimpel & Jason E. Schuknecht. |
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Abstract:
"The analysis in Patchwork Nation reminds us that the traditions and histories of individual states differ widely. Gimpel and Schuknecht's examination of territorial cleavages thus provides us with a key to understanding the raw material that politicians use to fashion our party system. Their findings are an reminder of geography's central role in national politics.".
"From the news analysts and pundits who use maps to identify electoral behavior patterns to the politicians and campaign strategists who study them to locate centers of support, experts of all stripes continue to recognize geography's importance to our political understanding. But in the wake of the survey research revolution of the late twentieth century, scholars often overlooked the relevance of geographical factors for the study of politics. Patchwork Nation retrieves this lost knowledge and extends it in important new directions, encouraging scholars to fundamentally reassess their thinking about the geographic basis of contemporary political behavior."--BOOK JACKET.
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- Party affiliation -- United States -- States.
- Political parties -- United States -- States.
- Elections -- United States -- States.
- Voting -- United States -- States.
- Political culture -- United States -- Regional disparities.
- State governments -- United States.
- Regionalpolitik.
- Partei.
- Wahlverhalten.
- Politische Kultur.
- USA.
