Electoral Realignments
Subtitle: A Critique of an American Genre
Publisher: Yale University Press
Published: September 1, 2002
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 192
ISBN-13: 9780300093360
Subjects: Elections & referenda; Political science & theory; U.S. Practical Politics; Political Science; Politics / Current Events; Politics/International Relations; USA; History & Theory - General; Political Process - Elections; Political Process - Political Parties; Political Science / History & Theory; United States - 20th Century; Elections; History; Party affiliation; Political parties; United States
Description: "The study of electoral realignments is one of the most influential and intellectually stimulating enterprises undertaken by American political scientists. Realignment theory has been seen as a science able to predict changes, and generations of students, journalists, pundits, and political scientists have been trained to be on the lookout for "signs" of new electoral realignments.

Now a major political scientist argues that the essential claims of realignment theory are wrong - that American elections, parties, and policy making are not (and never were) reconfigured according to the realignment calendar. David R. Mayhew is Sterling Professor of Political Science at Yale University."--BOOK JACKET.