LEADER 04739oam 2200637 a 450 001 9910811470003321 005 20200520144314.0 010 $a979-84-00-64467-2 010 $a9786612407918 010 $a2-7598-5363-2 010 $a1-282-40791-0 024 7 $a10.5040/9798400644672 035 $a(CKB)1000000000808078 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000435864 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11311422 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000435864 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10425257 035 $a(PQKB)11677232 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL495239 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10349387 035 $a(CaONFJC)MIL240791 035 $a(OCoLC)652448273 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC495239 035 $a(DLC)BP9798400644672BC 035 $a(EXLCZ)991000000000808078 100 $a20240214e20052024 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aurcn||||||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 10$aElephant's edge $ethe Republicans as a ruling party /$fAndrew J. Taylor ; foreword by Norman J. Ornstein 205 $a1st ed. 210 1$aWestport, Conn. :$cPraeger Publishers,$dc 2005. 210 2$aLondon :$cBloomsbury Publishing (UK),$d2024 215 $axvii, 319 p 300 $aBibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph 311 $a0-275-98536-9 311 $a0-313-04295-0 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references (p. [253]-301) and index. 327 $aAmerican party politics today -- Uneven playing field: the constitutional and geographical origins of the Republican advantage -- Elephants in the House: after forty years in the wilderness -- Playing the democrats at their own game -- Governing stealthily: Republicans in the states and the courts -- Trapping the donkey: foreign policy as Republican advantage -- Trapping the donkey again: domestic policy as Republican advantage -- The well-oiled machine: the Republican Party organization -- Allied interests, and political money -- Winning hearts and minds: the media and the Republican ideas industry -- Social, economic, and attitudinal change as Republican advantage: public opinion and the politics of wealth, work faith, and race -- The Republicans as a ruling (not majority) party. 330 $aThe Republican Party currently enjoys an edge. The advantage can be seen in Congress, state politics, judicial rulings, foreign and domestic policy, party finances, the media, public attitudes, and economic and demographic developments. Yet the Republicans do not seem capable of translating this into a durable electoral majority. Conditions now exist within American politics that will facilitate the establishment of Republican rule. Many of these conditions have ripened during the past decade. They include rules governing elections and campaign finance, shifts in core political values among the public that are consistent with Republican philosophy, and fundamental social and economic changes in American society that are likely to increase the ranks of Republican voters. The author explains in lucid, engaging terms how Republicans have taken control of both houses of Congress and experienced a remarkable resurgence at the state level. He explores how conservatives are utilizing the courts to simultaneously move policy rightward and mobilize sympathetic parts of the electorate. He also examines social and economic changes to show how racial politics, religiosity, and the nature of work and wealth benefit today's Republican Party. Republican rule should not be confused with Republican realignment. These conditions will advantage Republicans in future elections and bring about consistent Republican control of government at all levels-federal, state, and local, executive, legislative, and judicial. However, current conditions do not guarantee the kind of enduring Republican majority many journalists and strategists have predicted. Taylor explains the factors that will prohibit the Republicans from fully exploiting their advantages and dominating American politics the way the Democrats did in the 30 years following the New Deal. These factors include 330 8 $ainternal and intractable tensions within the Republican Party, the parties' sophisticated political information gathering strategies, and the innate risk aversion of the campaign industry. 606 $aPolitical parties$zUnited States 607 $aUnited States$xPolitics and government$y2001- 615 0$aPolitical parties 676 $a324.2734/09/0511 700 $aTaylor$b Andrew J$01765169 701 $aOrnstein$b Norman J$01093192 801 0$bDLC 801 1$bDLC 801 2$bDLC 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910811470003321 996 $aElephant's edge$94206418 997 $aUNINA