04007nam 22007333u 450 991082560890332120220902201352.00-585-14107-X(CKB)111004368625246(EBL)1318822(OCoLC)855503402(SSID)ssj0000249037(PQKBManifestationID)11210090(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000249037(PQKBWorkID)10203949(PQKB)10262940(MiAaPQ)EBC1318822(EXLCZ)9911100436862524620131216d2013|||| u|| |engtxtccrSouthern parties and elections[electronic resource] studies in regional political changeTuscaloosa University of Alabama Press20131 online resource (251 p.)Description based upon print version of record.0-8173-0862-8 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 Developments6. 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 1990's: Change or Continuity?; Notes; Select Bibliography; ContributorsIndexThis fresh look at southern politics clarifies the recent and dramatic development of party competition in the South. 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 contemporary developments in party realignment and examines the relationship between regional party change and electoral behavior and the larger patterns in national polPolitical partiesSouthern StatesElectionsSouthern StatesSouthern StatesPolitics and government1951-Political partiesElections324.275Steed Robert P1600848Moreland Laurence W1600847Baker Tod A1655512Anderson R. Bruce1190875Barth Jay1966-1655513Bullock Charles S.1942-1637282Cotter Patrick R1594842Eamon Tom1655514Fisher Samuel H.1955-1655515Gaddie Ronald Keith1655516Hoppe Layne1655517Hotaling John J1655518McCleskey Clifton1655519Mills Jon L1655520Nadeau Richard1956-1234843Scher Richard K961952Stanley Harold W1655521Sturrock David E313873Williams Felita T1655522AU-PeELAU-PeELAU-PeELBOOK9910825608903321Southern parties and elections4007949UNINA