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The American Political Nation, 1838–1893. Stanford: Stanford University Press, 1991. (ISBN 0-8047-2338-9) Sundquist, James L. Dynamics of the Party System: Alignment and Realignment of Political Parties in the United States (1983) online; Trende, Sean (2012). The Lost Majority: Why the Future of Government Is Up for Grabs–and Who Will Take ...
Sean Trende, senior elections analyst at RealClearPolitics, who argues against realignment theory and the "emerging Democratic majority" thesis proposed by journalist John Judis and political scientist Ruy Teixeira in his 2012 book The Lost Majority states, "Almost none of the theories propounded by realignment theorists has endured the test of ...
The Second Party System was the political party system operating in the United States from about 1828 to early 1854, after the First Party System ended. [1] The system was characterized by rapidly rising levels of voter interest, beginning in 1828, as demonstrated by Election Day turnouts, rallies, partisan newspapers, and high degrees of personal loyalty to parties.
American political parties are gradually changing right before our eyes.
The Republican Party emerged from the great political realignment of the mid-1850s. William Gienapp argues that the great realignment of the 1850s began before the Whig party demise, and was caused not by politicians but by voters at the local level. The central forces were ethno-cultural, involving tensions between pietistic Protestants versus ...
Contrary to popular left-wing narratives, Democrats’ suburban realignment did not mean the party abandoned all of its priorities. Overall, in the last three decades, the federal government has ...
[1] [2] [3] As the civil rights movement and dismantling of Jim Crow laws in the 1950s and 1960s visibly deepened existing racial tensions in much of the Southern United States, Republican politicians such as presidential candidates Richard Nixon and Barry Goldwater developed strategies that successfully contributed to the political realignment ...
[2] Generally, the political history of America can be divided into eras of political hegemonic control of the federal government through unified control of the Presidency and the Congress’ House and Senate (when those houses of Congress are in session), hegemonic eras which can be further divided into seven party systems which each follow a ...