Electoral Realignments: A Critique of an American Genre

by David R. Mayhew

Book Overview

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...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0300093659
• ISBN13: 9780300093650
• Release Date: May 2004
• Publisher: Yale University Press
• Length: 174 Pages
• Weight: 0.50 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 5.5" x 8.3"

Customer Reviews

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Mayhew offers a much needed critiqe of this the realignment literature. Many of us were subject to great works of Key, Burnham, E.E.S., Sundquist, ect... and Mayhew challenges each of their theories piece by piece. A monumental work challenges others to take up the great task of creating a new method to think of partisan change.