Howard L. Reiter, Jeffrey M. Stonecash

Counter Realignment

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Produktbeschreibung

In Counter Realignment, Howard L. Reiter and Jeffrey M. Stonecash analyze data from the early 1900s to the early 2000s to explain how the Republican Party lost the northeastern United States as a region of electoral support. Although the story of how the 'Solid South' shifted from the Democratic to the Republican parties has received extensive consideration from political scientists, far less attention has been given to the erosion of support for Republicans in the Northeast. Reiter and Stonecash examine who the Republican Party lost as it repositioned itself, resulting in the shift of power in the Northeast from heavily Republican in 1900 to heavily Democratic in the 2000s. Political parties often seek to attract new voters and risk losing existing voters. The Northeast has changed from heavily Republican in 1900 to heavily Democratic in the 2000s. The focus is to explain how the Republican Party lost the northeastern United States as a region of electoral support.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 208
• Erscheinungstermin: 31. Januar 2011
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 226mm x 152mm x 18mm
• Gewicht: 330g
• ISBN-13: 9780521186810
• ISBN-10: 0521186811
• Artikelnr.: 31192324

Autorenporträt

Howard L. Reiter is Professor Emeritus of Political Science at the University of Connecticut, where he taught for 35 years. He received his BA from Cornell University and his AM and Ph.D. from Harvard University. He has also taught at the University of Notre Dame, the University of Essex (UK), the University of Tartu (Estonia), and Uppsala University (Sweden). He is the author of Selecting the President (1985) and Parties and Elections in Corporate America (1987, 1993), as well as numerous book chapters and articles in such journals as the American Political Science Review, the British Journal of Political Science, and the Journal of Theoretical Politics, on the subject of political parties and elections. Among his academic honors are a Fulbright Research Fellowship in Western Europe (1987), a Fulbright Distinguished Chair (2001-02) in Uppsala, Sweden, and an Outstanding Academic Book award from Choice magazine (1986-87). He has lectured widely in Europe, Asia and Latin America. In 2010-2011 he will be President of the New England Political Science Association.

Inhaltsangabe

1. Party strategies and transition in the Northeast; 2. Party pursuits and the sources of change; 3. The first Republican losses: Democratic gains in the 1930s; 4. Searching for a majority: the rise of conservatives and second Republican losses; 5. Interpreting the Goldwater election and pursuing the South; 6. Social change, party response, and further Republican losses; 7. National parties and the position of the Northeast; 8. The process of change and the future.

Rezensionen

"In Counter Realignment, Howard Reiter and Jeffrey Stonecash show readers how the once heavily Republican Northeast has become a principal stronghold of the modern Democratic party. Their book is a valuable assessment of a little-studied topic."
-Earl Black, Rice University, co-author of Divided America: The Ferocious Power Struggle in American Politics