Where did the OC RedOCO states and OC BlueOCO states come from? Jerry F. Hough, professor on the US Presidency at Duke University, looks at the American experience and examines the fundamental change in party alignment that took place in the second half of the 20"
A comprehensive survey of U.S. political parties: their form, their function, and their present state of health. In this latest edition, Keefe provides a clear understanding of how and why...
This book, by contrast, tells a story of 'gendered' parties, which has up to now been largely unacknowledged.
In New York—still the nation's largest city and remaining so thanks to the throngs of immigrants from eastern and southern Europe who settled there after passing through Ellis Island from 1892 to 1914—the Tammany boss Charles F. Murphy ...
The book examines the implications of these changes for the Democratic and Republican Parties. The findings of the book are examined in light of the central dilemmas facing the two major parties in the contemporary political environment.
Campbell, Angus. 1966. A classification of presidential elections. In Elections and the political order, Angus Campbell, Philip E. Converse, Warren E. Miller, and Donald E. Stokes, (Eds.). New York: John Wiley and Sons. Campbell, Angus ...
Builds on the tradition of Kevin Phillips's The Emerging Republican Majority, forecasting a progressive era as indicated by a rise of a diverse post-industrial society and current opinions on such topics as health care and the environment.
The series is an indispensable reference for anyone working in American politics. General Editor for The Oxford Handbooks of American Politics: George C. Edwards III
Boynton, George R., and John S. Nelson. 1995. “Communicating Feeling: Music in Campaign Ads.” Paper presented at the Annual Meetings of the Midwest Political Science Association, Chicago. Brady, Henry E., and Paul M. Sniderman. 1985.
This book provides an excellent account of how political parties in Western Europe are perceiving and are responding to these contemporary challenges of electoral dealignment.
During the past fifty years American democracy has been transformed by the collapse of non-ideological and decentralized traditional party organizations and also by the emergence of more ideologically distinct and...