A Tale of Two Parties: Living Amongst Democrats and Republicans Since 1952

ISBN-13: 9780367322229 / Angielski / Twarda / 2021 / 176 str.

Kenneth Janda

Opis

This book tackles how the United States society has changed over the last six decades in terms of occupation, education, regional growth, urbanization, religion, ethnicity, and ideology, and how the Democratic and Republican parties have responded to these shifts over time.

Spis treści

1. Stability and Change in the American Polity  2. Partisan Identities  3. Party Organization and Social Groupings  4. Region: Once Primary, Now Secondary  5. Income: Slight, Steady, and Increasing Difference  6. Urbanization: Shifting Effects  7. Education: Incremental Reversal  8. Religion: Important and in Flux  9. Ethnicity: Dwindling Whites  10. Ideology: Partisan Cause or Partisan Effect?  11. Reviewing the Survey Data  12. Baneful Effects  13. Donald Trump’s Last Hurrah  Appendix A: Equal Group Appeal Formula  Appendix B: Party Base Concentration Formula  Appendix C: Poll Questions Asking Respondents’ Ideology, 1935-1969

O autorze

Kenneth Janda is Payson S. Wild Professor Emeritus of Political Science at Northwestern University. He is co-founder of the international journal Party Politics; co-author of The Challenge of Democracy: American Government in Global Politics, 15th Ed. (2021); author of Party Systems and Country Governance (2011); and The Emperor and the Peasant (2018). He received the Samuel J. Eldersveld Lifetime Achievement Award from the American Political Science Association’s Political Parties and Organizations Section in 2000, and the APSA’s Frank J. Goodnow Award for service to the discipline and profession in 2009.