Southern parties and elections : studies in regional political change.

Southern parties and elections : studies in regional political change.

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...

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Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Tuscaloosa, Alabama : Univ Of Alabama Press, 2012.
Subjects:
Since 1951
Elections > Southern States.
Political parties > Southern States.
Elections
Political parties
Politics and government
Southern States > Politics and government > 1951-
Southern States
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Table of 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 1990s: Change or Continuity?; Notes; Select Bibliography; Contributors.

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