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Southern parties and elections : studies in regional political change
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Steed, Robert P.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Political parties--Southern States.
- Political parties.
- Elections--Southern States.
- Elections.
- Southern States--Politics and government--1951-.
- Southern States.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (251 p.)
- Place of Publication:
- Tuscaloosa : University of Alabama Press, 2013.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- This fresh look at southern politics clarifies the recent and dramatic development of party competition in the South. Southern politics has changed dramatically during the past half century. While new developments have touched virtually every aspect of the region's politics, change has been especially marked in the South's political party and electoral systems. Southern Parties and Elections explores the contemporary developments in party realignment and examines the relationship between regional party change and electoral behavior and the larger patterns in national pol
- Contents:
- Contents; Figures; Tables; Acknowledgments; Introduction: Changing Electoral and Party Politics in the South; Part One: The Electoral Environment; 1. Voting Rights in the South After Shaw and Miller : The End of Racial Fairness?; 2. Voter Turnout and Candidate Participation: Effects of Affirmative Action Districting; 3. The Impact of Election Timing on Republican Trickle-Down in the South; 4. Changes in the Composition of Political Activists, 1952-1992; 5. Age and Partisanship, 1952-1992; Part Two: Nominations, Elections, and Partisan Developments
- 6. Out of the Phone Booths: Republican Primaries in the Deep South7. Dixie Versus the Nonsouthern Megastates in American Presidential Politics; 8. Increasing Liberalism Among Southern Members of Congress, 1970-1990, with an Analysis of the 1994 Congressional Elections; 9. Representation and Party in the Virginia General Assembly Since the Civil Rights and Reapportionment Revolutions; 10. Electoral Competition and Southern State Legislatures: The Dynamics of Change; Conclusion: Southern Party and Electoral Politics in the 1990's: Change or Continuity?; Notes; Select Bibliography; Contributors
- Index
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- ISBN:
- 0-585-14107-X
- OCLC:
- 855503402
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