Format:
Online-Ressource (307 p)
ISBN:
9780813119045
Content:
The 1994 elections represented a watershed year for southern Republicans. For the first time since Reconstruction, they gained control of a majority of national seats and governorships. Yet, despite these impressive gains, southern Republicans control only three of twenty-two state legislative chambers and 37 percent of state legislative seats. Joseph A. Aistrup addresses why this divergence between the national and subnational levels persists even after GOP national landslides in 1972, 1980, 1984, 1988, and 1994.Explanations for this divergence lie in the interaction between the Republicans'
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Description based upon print version of record
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Cover; Title; Copyright; Contents; List of Figures, Tables, and Maps; Acknowledgments; Introduction; Section 1 ; Chapter 1 Seeds of Change; Chapter 2 The Rhetoric of the Southern Strategy; Chapter 3 Colonizing the South; Chapter 4 Contesting and Winning Elections; Section 2; Chapter 5 Ideology: Conservatives versus Moderates; Chapter 6 Intraparty Coalition Politics: The Coleman Paradox; Chapter 7 The Redistricting Explanation; Chapter 8 Democratic Incumbency; Chapter 9 Top Down Advancement; Chapter 10 The Southern Strategy and Top-Down Advancement: Conclusion; Appendix 1 Interviews
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Appendix 2 Demographic ClustersAppendix 3 Measures of Policy Conservatism; Appendix 4 Pool Time-Series Design; Appendix 5 The Measurement of Republican Subnational Advancement; Notes; Bibliography; Index; A; B; C; D; E; F; G; H; I; J; K; L; M; N; O; P; R; S; T; U; V; W; Y
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9780813147925
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9780813119045
Additional Edition:
Print version The Southern Strategy Revisited : Republican Top-Down Advancement in the South
Language:
English
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