The Transformation In American Politics

Author : Paul Pierson,Theda Skocpol
Publisher : Princeton University Press
Page : 341 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 2011-06-27
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781400837502

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The Transformation of American Politics by Paul Pierson,Theda Skocpol Pdf

The contemporary American political landscape has been marked by two paradoxical transformations: the emergence after 1960 of an increasingly activist state, and the rise of an assertive and politically powerful conservatism that strongly opposes activist government. Leading young scholars take up these issues in The Transformation of American Politics. Arguing that even conservative administrations have become more deeply involved in managing our economy and social choices, they examine why our political system nevertheless has grown divided as never before over the extent to which government should involve itself in our lives. The contributors show how these two closely linked trends have influenced the reform and running of political institutions, patterns of civic engagement, and capacities for partisan mobilization--and fueled ever-heightening conflicts over the contours and reach of public policy. These transformations not only redefined who participates in American politics and how they do so, but altered the substance of political conflicts and the capacities of rival interests to succeed. Representing both an important analysis of American politics and an innovative contribution to the study of long-term political change, this pioneering volume reveals how partisan discourse and the relationship between citizens and their government have been redrawn and complicated by increased government programs. The contributors are Andrea Louise Campbell, Jacob S. Hacker, Nolan McCarty, Suzanne Mettler, Paul Pierson, Theda Skocpol, Mark A. Smith, Steven M. Teles, and Julian E. Zelizer.

Author : Sidney M. Milkis,Daniel J. Tichenor
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Page : 400 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 2019-01-25
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780226569420

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Rivalry and Reform by Sidney M. Milkis,Daniel J. Tichenor Pdf

Few relationships have proved more pivotal in changing the course of American politics than those between presidents and social movements. For all their differences, both presidents and social movements are driven by a desire to recast the political system, often pursuing rival agendas that set them on a collision course. Even when their interests converge, these two actors often compete to control the timing and conditions of political change. During rare historical moments, however, presidents and social movements forged partnerships that profoundly recast American politics. Rivalry and Reform explores the relationship between presidents and social movements throughout history and into the present day, revealing the patterns that emerge from the epic battles and uneasy partnerships that have profoundly shaped reform. Through a series of case studies, including Abraham Lincoln and abolitionism, Lyndon Johnson and the civil rights movement, and Ronald Reagan and the religious right, Sidney M. Milkis and Daniel J. Tichenor argue persuasively that major political change usually reflects neither a top-down nor bottom-up strategy but a crucial interplay between the two. Savvy leaders, the authors show, use social movements to support their policy goals. At the same time, the most successful social movements target the president as either a source of powerful support or the center of opposition. The book concludes with a consideration of Barack Obama’s approach to contemporary social movements such as Black Lives Matter, United We Dream, and Marriage Equality.

Author : David M. Ricci
Publisher : Yale University Press
Page : 328 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 1993-01-01
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 0300061234

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The Transformation of American Politics by David M. Ricci Pdf

Explores the parallel and convergent social, economic and political trends within America that have transformed government in Washington and led to the development and prestige of public policy research centres or think tanks.

Author : Charles S. Bullock III,Susan A. MacManus,Jeremy D. Mayer,Mark J. Rozell
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 240 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 2019-08-07
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780190065942

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The South and the Transformation of U.S. Politics by Charles S. Bullock III,Susan A. MacManus,Jeremy D. Mayer,Mark J. Rozell Pdf

A strong case can be made that the South has had the greatest impact of any region on the transformation of U.S. politics and government. Since 1968, we have seen the demise of the "solid (Democratic) South" and the rise of the Republican-dominated South; the rise of the largely southern white evangelical religious right movement; and demographic changes that have vastly altered the political landscape of the region and national politics. Overriding all of these changes is the major constant of southern politics: race. Since the 1990s, the Republican Party has dominated politics in the Southern United States. Race relations were a large factor in this shift that began about a half century ago, but nonetheless, race and demographic change are once again realigning party politics in the region, this time back toward an emergent Democratic Party. Membership in the Southern Democratic Party is majority African American, Latino, and Asian, and rapidly expanding with an influx of immigrants, primarily Latino. While race continues to shape politics in the region, population growth is, as this book argues, the major factor affecting politics in the South. In fact, the populations of Georgia, North Carolina, South Carolina, and Virginia have grown more rapidly than the population of the nation as a whole over the past half century--and each of these states has gained at least one seat in Congress. These growth states are the ones in which populations are diversifying, economies are surging, and Democrats are making headway. They, along with Florida and Texas, are also among the most competitive states with the largest numbers of Electoral College votes in the region. It is likely, therefore, that among the key battlegrounds for determining the presidency will be the southern states with the fastest growing populations. This will especially be the case once the Latino population in Texas mobilizes. This book describes and analyzes the ways in which demographic change has shaped politics in the South since the late 1960s and may enable the Democratic Party in the future to re-take politics in the region, and even shut out Republicans from the nation's highest office.

Author : Nicole Hemmer
Publisher : University of Pennsylvania Press
Page : 336 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 2016-09-22
Category : History
ISBN : 9780812248395

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Messengers of the Right by Nicole Hemmer Pdf

Messengers of the Right tells the story of the media activists who built the American conservative movement and transformed it into one of the most significant and successful movements of the twentieth century—and in the process remade the Republican Party and the American media landscape.

Author : Edward G. Carmines,James A. Stimson
Publisher : Princeton University Press
Page : 236 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 2020-09-01
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780691218250

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Issue Evolution by Edward G. Carmines,James A. Stimson Pdf

The description for this book, Issue Evolution: Race and the Transformation of American Politics, will be forthcoming.

Author : David Karpf
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 254 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 2012-05-30
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780199942879

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The MoveOn Effect by David Karpf Pdf

The Internet is facilitating a generational transition among American political advocacy organizations. This book provides a detailed exploration of how ?netroots? advocacy groups - MoveOn.org, DailyKos.com, DemocracyforAmerica.com, and the Progressive Change Campaign Committee - differ from ?legacy? peer organizations. It also explains the partisan character of these technological innovations.

Author : Corey M. Brooks
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Page : 311 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 2016-01-14
Category : History
ISBN : 9780226307282

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Liberty Power by Corey M. Brooks Pdf

American politics and society were transformed by the antislavery movement. But as Corey M. Brooks shows, it was the antislavery third parties not the Democrats or Whigs that had the largest and least-understood impact. Third-party abolitionists exploited opportunities to achieve outsized influence and shaping the national debate. Political abolitionists key contribution was the elaboration and dissemination of the notion of the Slave Power the claim that slaveholders wielded disproportionate political power and therefore threatened the liberties and political power of northern whites. By convincing northerners of the Slave Power menace, abolitionists paved the way for broader coalitions, and ultimately for Abraham Lincoln s Republican Party."

Author : Eric Schickler
Publisher : Princeton University Press
Page : 379 pages
File Size : 47,7 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 : Dan T. Carter
Publisher : LSU Press
Page : 604 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 2000-02-01
Category : History
ISBN : 0807125970

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The Politics of Rage by Dan T. Carter Pdf

Combining biography with regional and national history, Dan T. Carter chronicles the dramatic rise and fall of George Wallace, a populist who abandoned his ideals to become a national symbol of racism, and later begged for forgiveness. In The Politics of Rage, Carter argues persuasively that the four-time Alabama governor and four-time presidential candidate helped to establish the conservative political movement that put Ronald Reagan in the White House in 1980 and gave Newt Gingrich and the Republicans control of Congress in 1994. In this second edition, Carter updates Wallace’s story with a look at the politician’s death and the nation’s reaction to it and gives a summary of his own sense of the legacy of “the most important loser in twentieth-century American politics.”

Author : Joel H. Silbey
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 136 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 1967
Category : United States
ISBN : STANFORD:36105002491640

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The Transformation of American Politics, 1840-1860 by Joel H. Silbey Pdf

Author : John L. Bullion
Publisher : Addison-Wesley Longman
Page : 276 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 2008
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : UOM:39015074288583

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Lyndon B. Johnson and the Transformation of American Politics by John L. Bullion Pdf

[This book] offers a close look at how Johnson handled the issues of civil rights, segregation, Vietnam, and an unruly economy, and demonstrates how these issues and events wore away Johnson's once robust idealism.-Back cover.

Author : Paul Pierson,Theda Skocpol
Publisher : Princeton University Press
Page : 348 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 2007-08-19
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 069112258X

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The Transformation of American Politics by Paul Pierson,Theda Skocpol Pdf

The contemporary American political landscape has been marked by two paradoxical transformations: the emergence after 1960 of an increasingly activist state, and the rise of an assertive and politically powerful conservatism that strongly opposes activist government. Leading young scholars take up these issues in The Transformation of American Politics. Arguing that even conservative administrations have become more deeply involved in managing our economy and social choices, they examine why our political system nevertheless has grown divided as never before over the extent to which government should involve itself in our lives. The contributors show how these two closely linked trends have influenced the reform and running of political institutions, patterns of civic engagement, and capacities for partisan mobilization--and fueled ever-heightening conflicts over the contours and reach of public policy. These transformations not only redefined who participates in American politics and how they do so, but altered the substance of political conflicts and the capacities of rival interests to succeed. Representing both an important analysis of American politics and an innovative contribution to the study of long-term political change, this pioneering volume reveals how partisan discourse and the relationship between citizens and their government have been redrawn and complicated by increased government programs. The contributors are Andrea Louise Campbell, Jacob S. Hacker, Nolan McCarty, Suzanne Mettler, Paul Pierson, Theda Skocpol, Mark A. Smith, Steven M. Teles, and Julian E. Zelizer.

Author : United States. Advisory Commission on Intergovernmental Relations
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 96 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 1986
Category : Campaign funds
ISBN : UOM:39015018888779

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The Transformation in American Politics by United States. Advisory Commission on Intergovernmental Relations Pdf

Author : Meg Jacobs
Publisher : Macmillan + ORM
Page : 403 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 2016-04-19
Category : History
ISBN : 9780374714895

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Panic at the Pump by Meg Jacobs Pdf

An authoritative history of the energy crises of the 1970s and the world they wrought In 1973, the Arab OPEC cartel banned the export of oil to the United States, sending prices and tempers rising across the country. Dark Christmas trees, lowered thermostats, empty gas tanks, and the new fifty-five-mile-per-hour speed limit all suggested that America was a nation in decline. “Don’t be fuelish” became the national motto. Though the embargo would end the following year, it introduced a new kind of insecurity into American life—an insecurity that would only intensify when the Iranian Revolution led to new shortages at the end of the decade. As Meg Jacobs shows, the oil crisis had a decisive impact on American politics. If Vietnam and Watergate taught us that our government lied, the energy crisis taught us that our government didn’t work. Presidents Nixon, Ford, and Carter promoted ambitious energy policies that were meant to rally the nation and end its dependence on foreign oil, but their efforts came to naught. The Democratic Party was divided, with older New Deal liberals who prized access to affordable energy squaring off against young environmentalists who pushed for conservation. Meanwhile, conservative Republicans argued that there would be no shortages at all if the government got out of the way and let the market work. The result was a political stalemate and panic across the country: miles-long gas lines, Big Oil conspiracy theories, even violent strikes by truckers. Jacobs concludes that the energy crisis of the 1970s became, for many Americans, an object lesson in the limitations of governmental power. Washington proved unable to design an effective national energy policy, and the result was a mounting skepticism about government intervention that set the stage for the rise of Reaganism. She offers lively portraits of key figures, from Nixon and Carter to the zealous energy czar William Simon and the young Donald Rumsfeld and Dick Cheney. Jacobs’s absorbing chronicle ends with the 1991 Gulf War, when President George H. W. Bush sent troops to protect the free flow of oil in the Persian Gulf. It was a failure of domestic policy at home that helped precipitate military action abroad. As we face the repercussions of a changing climate, a volatile oil market, and continued turmoil in the Middle East, Panic at the Pump is a necessary and lively account of a formative period in American political history.