Electoral Realignments

By David R. Mayhew

Subjects: Elections, united states, Politics/International Relations, Party affiliation, Political Process - Elections, History & Theory - General, USA, Politics / Current Events, United States - 20th Century, Political Science / History & Theory, United States, Political parties, united states, Elections & referenda, Political Science, Political science & theory, Elections, History, U.S. Practical Politics, Political Process - Political Parties, Political parties

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.