Issue Evolution: Race and the Transformation of American PoliticsTo test their theory of how issues can reshape the political system, Carmines and Stimson examine the impact of race on American politics in recent decades. They focus on presidential campaigns, congressional votes, party activists, and mass attitudes; and develop their alternative to realignment theory. |
Contents
1 | 3 |
2 | 27 |
PARAGRAPHS | 55 |
ACTIVISTS AS PERCENTAGE OF GROUP | 99 |
WORKERS AS PERCENTAGE OF GROUP | 101 |
1952 1956 1960 1964 1968 1970 1972 1974 1976 1978 | 103 |
7 | 159 |
8 | 184 |
BIBLIOGRAPHY | 199 |
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Issue Evolution: Race and the Transformation of American Politics Edward G. Carmines,James A. Stimson No preview available - 1989 |
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1964 presidential election 1980 YEAR Figure ability groups activity Barry Goldwater behavior belief systems blacks campaign candidates Carmines causal central Chapter cial Civil Rights Act clarity cloture coalition Cognitive Ability Congress congressional conservatism conservative correlations critical election Deal decay Democratic party desegregation Desegregation Attitudes dimension dynamic growth effect elec elite evidence federal Goldwater House ideological impact interparty difference issue alignment issue constraint issue evolution issue polarization Journal of Political large numbers legislation majority mass electorate ment National Election Study Nixon partisan change Party Identifiers party images party positions party system party's pattern perceptions period political issues Principal Component Analysis produce question racial attitudes racial conservatism racial liberalism racial policy Racial Voting Reconstruction region Republican party response Richard Nixon role roll-call votes scale secular realignment Source South southern Democrats SRC/CPS National Election Stimson structure Table theory tion transformation U.S. Congress variable voters Voting Rights Act