Racial Realignment

Author : Eric Schickler
Publisher : Princeton University Press
Page : 378 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 2016-04-26
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780691153889

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Racial Realignment by Eric Schickler Pdf

Few transformations in American politics have been as important as the integration of African Americans into the Democratic Party and the Republican embrace of racial policy conservatism. The story of this partisan realignment on race is often told as one in which political elites—such as Lyndon Johnson and Barry Goldwater—set in motion a dramatic and sudden reshuffling of party positioning on racial issues during the 1960s. Racial Realignment instead argues that top party leaders were actually among the last to move, and that their choices were dictated by changes that had already occurred beneath them. Drawing upon rich data sources and original historical research, Eric Schickler shows that the two parties' transformation on civil rights took place gradually over decades. Schickler reveals that Democratic partisanship, economic liberalism, and support for civil rights had crystallized in public opinion, state parties, and Congress by the mid-1940s. This trend was propelled forward by the incorporation of African Americans and the pro-civil-rights Congress of Industrial Organizations into the Democratic coalition. Meanwhile, Republican partisanship became aligned with economic and racial conservatism. Scrambling to maintain existing power bases, national party elites refused to acknowledge these changes for as long as they could, but the civil rights movement finally forced them to choose where their respective parties would stand. Presenting original ideas about political change, Racial Realignment sheds new light on twentieth and twenty-first century racial politics.

Author : James M. Glaser
Publisher : Yale University Press
Page : 258 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 1998-09-10
Category : History
ISBN : 0300077238

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Race, Campaign Politics, and the Realignment in the South by James M. Glaser Pdf

Since the Voting Rights Act of 1965, while Republican candidates have carried the South in presidential elections, the Democratic Party has persisted in winning southern congressional elections. Drawing on a wide variety of sources, this text examines this political phenomenon.

Author : Eric Schickler
Publisher : Princeton University Press
Page : 379 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 2016-04-26
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781400880973

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Racial Realignment by Eric Schickler Pdf

Few transformations in American politics have been as important as the integration of African Americans into the Democratic Party and the Republican embrace of racial policy conservatism. The story of this partisan realignment on race is often told as one in which political elites—such as Lyndon Johnson and Barry Goldwater—set in motion a dramatic and sudden reshuffling of party positioning on racial issues during the 1960s. Racial Realignment instead argues that top party leaders were actually among the last to move, and that their choices were dictated by changes that had already occurred beneath them. Drawing upon rich data sources and original historical research, Eric Schickler shows that the two parties' transformation on civil rights took place gradually over decades. Schickler reveals that Democratic partisanship, economic liberalism, and support for civil rights had crystallized in public opinion, state parties, and Congress by the mid-1940s. This trend was propelled forward by the incorporation of African Americans and the pro-civil-rights Congress of Industrial Organizations into the Democratic coalition. Meanwhile, Republican partisanship became aligned with economic and racial conservatism. Scrambling to maintain existing power bases, national party elites refused to acknowledge these changes for as long as they could, but the civil rights movement finally forced them to choose where their respective parties would stand. Presenting original ideas about political change, Racial Realignment sheds new light on twentieth and twenty-first century racial politics.

Author : George R. Goethals
Publisher : Emerald Group Publishing
Page : 205 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 2018-04-30
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 9781787437920

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Realignment, Region, and Race by George R. Goethals Pdf

Goethals explores the place of racial dynamics in American politics from President Lincoln to Donald Trump to explain the way the politics of racial justice and needs for positive social identity have led to different regions in the United States changing party affiliation.

Author : David R. Mayhew
Publisher : Yale University Press
Page : 182 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 2008-10-01
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780300130034

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Electoral Realignments by David R. Mayhew Pdf

The study of electoral realignments is one of the most influential and intellectually stimulating enterprises undertaken by American political scientists. Realignment theory has been seen as a science able to predict changes, and generations of students, journalists, pundits, and political scientists have been trained to be on the lookout for “signs” of new electoral realignments. Now a major political scientist argues that the essential claims of realignment theory are wrong—that American elections, parties, and policymaking are not (and never were) reconfigured according to the realignment calendar. David Mayhew examines fifteen key empirical claims of realignment theory in detail and shows us why each in turn does not hold up under scrutiny. It is time, he insists, to open the field to new ideas. We might, for example, adopt a more nominalistic, skeptical way of thinking about American elections that highlights contingency, short-term election strategies, and valence issues. Or we might examine such broad topics as bellicosity in early American history, or racial questions in much of our electoral history. But we must move on from an old orthodoxy and failed model of illumination.

Author : Steven R. David
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 272 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 1991
Category : Political Science
ISBN : UOM:39015021855179

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Choosing Sides by Steven R. David Pdf

Author : George Derek Musgrove
Publisher : University of Georgia Press
Page : 323 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 2012
Category : History
ISBN : 9780820334592

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Rumor, Repression, and Racial Politics by George Derek Musgrove Pdf

"While historians have devoted an enormous amount of attention to documenting how African Americans gained access to formal politics in the mid-1960s, very few have scrutinized what happened next, and the small body of work that does consider the aftermath of the civil rights movement is almost entirely limited to the Black Power era. In Rumor, Repression, and Racial Politics, Derek Musgrove pushes much further, presenting a powerful new historical framework for understanding race and politics between 1965 and 1996. He argues that in order to make sense of this recent period, we need to examine the harassment of black elected officials - the ways black politicians were denied access to seats they'd won in elections or, after taking office, were targeted in corruption probes. Musgrove's aim is not to evaluate whether individual allegations of corruption had merit, but to establish what the pervasive harassment of black politicians has meant, politically and culturally, over the course of recent American history. It's a story that takes him from California to Michigan to Alabama, and along the way covers a fascinating range of topics: Watergate, the surveillance state, the power of conspiracy theories, the plunge in voter turnout, and even the strange political campaigns of Lyndon LaRouche"--Provided by publisher.

Author : Steven Levitsky,Daniel Ziblatt
Publisher : Crown
Page : 301 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 2023-09-12
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780593443088

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Tyranny of the Minority by Steven Levitsky,Daniel Ziblatt Pdf

A call to reform our antiquated political institutions before it’s too late—from the New York Times bestselling authors of How Democracies Die America is undergoing a massive experiment: It is moving, in fits and starts, toward a multiracial democracy, something few societies have ever done. But the prospect of change has sparked an authoritarian backlash that threatens the very foundations of our political system. Why is democracy under assault here, and not in other wealthy, diversifying nations? And what can we do to save it? With the clarity and brilliance that made their first book, How Democracies Die, a global bestseller, Harvard professors Steven Levitsky and Daniel Ziblatt offer a coherent framework for understanding these volatile times. They draw on a wealth of examples—from 1930s France to present-day Thailand—to explain why and how political parties turn against democracy. They then show how our Constitution makes us uniquely vulnerable to attacks from within: It is a pernicious enabler of minority rule, allowing partisan minorities to consistently thwart and even rule over popular majorities. Most modern democracies—from Germany and Sweden to Argentina and New Zealand—have eliminated outdated institutions like elite upper chambers, indirect elections, and lifetime tenure for judges. The United States lags dangerously behind. In this revelatory book, Levitsky and Ziblatt issue an urgent call to reform our politics. It’s a daunting task, but we have remade our country before—most notably, after the Civil War and during the Progressive Era. And now we are at a crossroads: America will either become a multiracial democracy or cease to be a democracy at all.

Author : Alan I. Abramowitz
Publisher : Yale University Press
Page : 215 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 2018-06-19
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780300235128

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The Great Alignment by Alan I. Abramowitz Pdf

Alan I. Abramowitz has emerged as a leading spokesman for the view that our current political divide is not confined to a small group of elites and activists but a key feature of the American social and cultural landscape. The polarization of the political and media elites, he argues, arose and persists because it accurately reflects the state of American society. Here, he goes further: the polarization is unique in modern U.S. history. Today’s party divide reflects an unprecedented alignment of many different divides: racial and ethnic, religious, ideological, and geographic. Abramowitz shows how the partisan alignment arose out of the breakup of the old New Deal coalition; introduces the most important difference between our current era and past eras, the rise of “negative partisanship”; explains how this phenomenon paved the way for the Trump presidency; and examines why our polarization could even grow deeper. This statistically based analysis shows that racial anxiety is by far a better predictor of support for Donald Trump than any other factor, including economic discontent.

Author : Goethals
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 2018
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1787544389

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Realignment, Region, and Race by Goethals Pdf

Author : Lily Geismer
Publisher : Princeton University Press
Page : 386 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 2017-01-31
Category : History
ISBN : 9780691176239

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Don't Blame Us by Lily Geismer Pdf

Don't Blame Us traces the reorientation of modern liberalism and the Democratic Party away from their roots in labor union halls of northern cities to white-collar professionals in postindustrial high-tech suburbs, and casts new light on the importance of suburban liberalism in modern American political culture. Focusing on the suburbs along the high-tech corridor of Route 128 around Boston, Lily Geismer challenges conventional scholarly assessments of Massachusetts exceptionalism, the decline of liberalism, and suburban politics in the wake of the rise of the New Right and the Reagan Revolution in the 1970s and 1980s. Although only a small portion of the population, knowledge professionals in Massachusetts and elsewhere have come to wield tremendous political leverage and power. By probing the possibilities and limitations of these suburban liberals, this rich and nuanced account shows that—far from being an exception to national trends—the suburbs of Massachusetts offer a model for understanding national political realignment and suburban politics in the second half of the twentieth century.

Author : Thomas K. Ogorzalek
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 353 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 2018
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780190668877

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The Cities on the Hill by Thomas K. Ogorzalek Pdf

Urbanicity and city delegations -- A proper national policy -- Ties that bind -- Anti-racism without anti-racists -- The cities on the hill -- Notes for a metropolitan political order

Author : Zoltan L. Hajnal
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 230 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 2006-12-25
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781139462426

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Changing White Attitudes toward Black Political Leadership by Zoltan L. Hajnal Pdf

Despite the hopes of the civil rights movement, researchers have found that the election of African Americans to office has not greatly improved the well-being of the black community. By shifting the focus to the white community, this book shows that black representation can have a profound impact. Utilizing national public opinion surveys, data on voting patterns in large American cities, and in-depth studies of Los Angeles and Chicago, Zoltan Hajnal demonstrates that under most black mayors there is real, positive change in the white vote and in the racial attitudes of white residents. This change occurs because black incumbency provides concrete information that disproves the fears and expectations of many white residents. These findings not only highlight the importance of black representation; they also demonstrate the critical role that information can play in racial politics to the point where black representation can profoundly alter white views and white votes.

Author : Jeffery A. Jenkins,Justin Peck
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Page : 343 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 2021-05-25
Category : HISTORY
ISBN : 9780226756363

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Congress and the First Civil Rights Era, 1861-1918 by Jeffery A. Jenkins,Justin Peck Pdf

The Civil War Years, 1861-1865 -- The Early Reconstruction Era, 1865-1871 -- The Demise of Reconstruction, 1871-1877 -- The Redemption Era, 1877-1891 -- The Wilderness Years, 1891-1918.

Author : Michael Omi,Howard Winant
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 382 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 2014-06-20
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781135127503

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Racial Formation in the United States by Michael Omi,Howard Winant Pdf

Twenty years since the publication of the Second Edition and more than thirty years since the publication of the original book, Racial Formation in the United States now arrives with each chapter radically revised and rewritten by authors Michael Omi and Howard Winant, but the overall purpose and vision of this classic remains the same: Omi and Winant provide an account of how concepts of race are created and transformed, how they become the focus of political conflict, and how they come to shape and permeate both identities and institutions. The steady journey of the U.S. toward a majority nonwhite population, the ongoing evisceration of the political legacy of the early post-World War II civil rights movement, the initiation of the ‘war on terror’ with its attendant Islamophobia, the rise of a mass immigrants rights movement, the formulation of race/class/gender ‘intersectionality’ theories, and the election and reelection of a black President of the United States are some of the many new racial conditions Racial Formation now covers.