Electoral Realignments

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"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.

subjects: Political parties, united states,  Elections, united states,  Political parties,  History,  Elections,  Party affiliation,  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,  United States