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The Democratic Party heads north, 1877-1962 /

Record Type:	Language materials, printed : Monograph/item
Title/Author:	The Democratic Party heads north, 1877-1962 // Alan Ware.
Author:	Ware, Alan,
Description:	1 online resource (xvii, 281 pages) :digital, PDF file(s). :
Notes:	Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 05 Oct 2015).
Online resource:	https://doi.org/10.1017/CBO9780511611506
ISBN:	9780511611506 (ebook)

The Democratic Party heads north, 1877-1962 /
Ware, Alan,

The Democratic Party heads north, 1877-1962 /Alan Ware. - 1 online resource (xvii, 281 pages) :digital, PDF file(s).

Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 05 Oct 2015).

The South and the Democratic coalition -- The dynamics of party coalition building -- The unstable party equilibrium, 1877-1896 -- The re-assembling of the Democratic coalition, 1896-1912 -- Woodrow Wilson and the failure to re-shape the Democratic coalition, 1912-1920 -- How could a winning Democratic coalition be constructed, 1920-1932? -- Democratic Party dominance or restored party equilibrium, 1938-1952? -- The two parties' coalitions come under threat, 1952-1962 -- Conclusions.

This book examines the dynamics of the American party system and explores how contemporary American politics was formed. Specifically, it asks how the Democrats could become sufficiently competitive in the American North as to be able to construct a national political majority. It rejects the conventional account, based on 'realignment theory', that between the end of Reconstruction and the Civil Rights Revolution, the base level of support for the Democratic party varied greatly from one era to another. Instead, by distinguishing between the 'building blocks' available to the Democrats in coalition formation and the aggregation of those 'blocks' into an actual coalition, the author shows that there was much less variation over time in the available 'blocks' than is usually argued. Neither the economic depression of 1893 nor the New Deal had the impact on the party system that most political scientists claim.

ISBN: 9780511611506 (ebook)Subjects--Corporate Names:

935027
Democratic Party (U.S.)
--History.

LC Class. No.: JK2316 / .W373 2006

Dewey Class. No.: 324.2736/09

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