Walter Dean Burnham
Biographic Data
| ID | 697720 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Walter Dean Burnham |
| GIVEN NAMES | Walter Dean |
| FAMILY NAME | Burnham |
| SIGNATURE | BURNHAM W D |
| AFFILIATIONS | Massachusetts Institute of Technology |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 39 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 310 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 39 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1964 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2015 |
| H-INDEX | 7 |
Key, Valdimer Orlando (1908–63)
Party Ideologies in America, 1828-1996
Journal Article Party Ideologies in America, 1828–1996. By John Gerring. (New York: Cambridge University Press, 1998. xiv, 337 pp. $64.95, ISBN 0-521-59262-3.) Get access Walter Dean Burnham Walter Dean Burnham University of Texas, Austin, Texas Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 87, Issue 2, September 2000, Pages 625–627, https://doi.org/10.2307/2568773 Published: 01 Septe…
Lions under the Throne, Dissenters, Prophets, and Plain Academics: What (If Anything) Does American Political Development Have to Say to External Publics
Constitutional Moments and Punctuated Equilibria: A Political Scientist Confronts Bruce Ackerman's "We the People"
Walter Dean Burnham, Constitutional Moments and Punctuated Equilibria: A Political Scientist Confronts Bruce Ackerman's "We the People", The Yale Law Journal, Vol. 108, No. 8, Symposium: Moments of Change: Transformation in American Constitutionalism (Jun., 1999), pp. 2237-2277
Activities and Appointments
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A Report on the Congressional Fellowship Program, 1991-92 and 1992-93
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A Report on the Congressional Fellowship Program, 1990–91 and 1991–92
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The Thirteen Keys to the Presidency
The revolutionary system that reveals how presidential elections really work from the civil war to the 21st century. As controversial as it is compelling this book fundamentally alters our understanding of presidential politics
Council Minutes August 31, 1988
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Elections as democratic institutions
Periodization Schemes and “Party Systems”: The “System of 1896” as a Case in Point
1. Was there any such thing as the “System of 1896”—or indeed any other “system” in American political history, for that matter? Professor McCormick’s paper suggests that he would clearly answer this question in the affirmative. For essentially he argues not that no such system existed, but that much too heavy an interpretative burden in my analyses has been placed on 1896 itself. I am sure that, so far as this is concerned, Professor McCormick i…
"Periodization Schemes and "Party Systems: The "System of 1896" as a Case in Point
Walter Dean Burnham, Periodization Schemes and "Party Systems": The "System of 1896" as a Case in Point, Social Science History, Vol. 10, No. 3, Walter Dean Burnham and the Dynamics of American Politics (Autumn, 1986), pp. 263-314
Those High Nineteenth-Century American Voting Turnouts: Fact or Fiction
Are the results objected to upon the score of being imperfect, or in some respects unreliable? Let the objection be admitted, and is it necessary to grope in absolute darkness because it is impossible to have absolute truth? If the census of a people, for example, cannot be received implicitly, does it become proper and right to have no data whatever? Are men acting on this principle in other matters? Is not a large and valuable mass of human kno…
Voters, Absent and Present
Las Elecciones en Estados Unidos (Marzo-Noviembre De 1984)
The eclipse of the democratic party
The eclipse of the democratic party-revisited
Section and Party: A Political Geography of American Presidential Elections, from Andrew Jackson to Ronald Reagan
Journal Article Section and Party: A Political Geography of American Presidential Elections, from Andrew Jackson to Ronald Reagan. By J. Clark Archer and Peter J. Taylor. (Chichester, Eng.: Research Studies, 1981. xiv + 271 pp. Maps, charts, tables, appendixes, notes, bibliography, and index. $41.25.) Get access Albert C. E. Parker Albert C. E. Parker Alexandria, Virginia Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Jo…
Thoughts on the “Governability Crisis” in the West
The Politics of Crisis
Jeffrey L. Pressman
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Parties and Party Systems: A Framework for Analysis, Volume I, by Giovanni Sartori
Revitalization and Decay: Looking Toward the Third Century of American Electoral Politics
Insulation and Responsiveness in Congressional Elections
The 1974 congressional election is part of a crisis sequence in the current history of the American political system. The tremendous upheaval which has been going on in our electoral politics since 1964 has had a number of remarkable by-products. Chief among these has been the progressive weakening of the hold which party loyalties have had upon the voters in channeling their voting decisions. This growing dissolution of party-in-the-electorate e…
Bicentennial themes and dreams
The Changing Shape of the American Political Universe
In the infancy of a science the use even of fairly crude methods of analysis and description can produce surprisingly large increments of knowledge if new perspectives are brought to bear upon available data. Such perspectives not infrequently require both a combination of methodologies and a critical appraisal of the limitations of each. The emergence of American voting-behavior studies over the last two decades constitutes a good case in point.…
Theory and Voting Research: "Some Reflections on Converse's "Change in the American Electorate
Philip E. Converse has challenged the findings of a 1965 article, "The Changing Shape of the American Political Universe," and other work by Burnham. Converse asserts that most of the very high voter participation which occurred before 1900 can be explained by a combination of electoral corruption, the absence of personal-registration requirements and other "undramatic" factors, and thus that the anomalies which Burnham reported are largely spuri…
Insulation and Responsiveness in Congressional Elections
The 1974 congressional election is part of a crisis sequence in the current history of the American political system. The tremendous upheaval which has been going on in our electoral politics since 1964 has had a number of remarkable by-products. Chief among these has been the progressive weakening of the hold which party loyalties have had upon the voters in channeling their voting decisions. This growing dissolution of party-in-the-electorate e…
Political Immunization and Political Confessionalism: The United States and Weimar Germany
The United States and Weimar Germany One of the most salient features of an innovative work published in the I96os is the discussion by William McPhee and Jack Ferguson of immunization.I This construct may be viewed as a specific extension of general learning theory. People who participate across time in an electoral system develop partisan commitments as they grow older. As these commitments become entrenched with age and with reinforcing primar…
Those High Nineteenth-Century American Voting Turnouts: Fact or Fiction
Are the results objected to upon the score of being imperfect, or in some respects unreliable? Let the objection be admitted, and is it necessary to grope in absolute darkness because it is impossible to have absolute truth? If the census of a people, for example, cannot be received implicitly, does it become proper and right to have no data whatever? Are men acting on this principle in other matters? Is not a large and valuable mass of human kno…
Additive and Multiplicative Models of the Voting Universe: The Case of Pennsylvania: 1960-1968
Of all the fields of political science where quantitative methods have been developed over the past generation, probably the one where scholarly understanding has been most enriched has been that of mass voting behavior. But while we know vastly more about this behavior on the individual and aggregate level than we did a quarter-century ago, there are still large territories on the map which are blank, or in which exploration has only very recent…
Rejoinder to “Comments” by Philip Converse and Jerrold Rusk
Professors Converse and Rusk have replied to my present paper in two different ways: the former by a short, sharp rejoinder and the latter by a longer and more diffuse article. For space reasons alone, my commentary on their remarks must be concise; and while there is much which I should like to discuss further, there comes a time when the case must be sent to the jury. It is best, I think, to confine most of my comments on Philip Converse's Note…
"Periodization Schemes and "Party Systems: The "System of 1896" as a Case in Point
Walter Dean Burnham, Periodization Schemes and "Party Systems": The "System of 1896" as a Case in Point, Social Science History, Vol. 10, No. 3, Walter Dean Burnham and the Dynamics of American Politics (Autumn, 1986), pp. 263-314
Revitalization and Decay: Looking Toward the Third Century of American Electoral Politics
Parties and Party Systems: A Framework for Analysis, Volume I, by Giovanni Sartori
The end of American Party politics
The eclipse of the democratic party
Communications
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Election 1968-The abortive landslide
The Alabama Senatorial Election of 1962: Return of Inter-Party Competition
The Alabama Senatorial Election of 1962: Return of Inter-Party Competition
The Changing Shape of the American Political Universe
In the infancy of a science the use even of fairly crude methods of analysis and description can produce surprisingly large increments of knowledge if new perspectives are brought to bear upon available data. Such perspectives not infrequently require both a combination of methodologies and a critical appraisal of the limitations of each. The emergence of American voting-behavior studies over the last two decades constitutes a good case in point.…
The American party systems: Stages of Political Development
The American Party Systems: States of Political Development
Election 1968-The abortive landslide
The end of American Party politics
Critical elections and the mainsprings of American politics.
Additive and Multiplicative Models of the Voting Universe: The Case of Pennsylvania: 1960-1968
Of all the fields of political science where quantitative methods have been developed over the past generation, probably the one where scholarly understanding has been most enriched has been that of mass voting behavior. But while we know vastly more about this behavior on the individual and aggregate level than we did a quarter-century ago, there are still large territories on the map which are blank, or in which exploration has only very recent…
Communications
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Political Immunization and Political Confessionalism: The United States and Weimar Germany
The United States and Weimar Germany One of the most salient features of an innovative work published in the I96os is the discussion by William McPhee and Jack Ferguson of immunization.I This construct may be viewed as a specific extension of general learning theory. People who participate across time in an electoral system develop partisan commitments as they grow older. As these commitments become entrenched with age and with reinforcing primar…
Crisis of american political legitimacy
Political scientists on the political process
Rejoinder to “Comments” by Philip Converse and Jerrold Rusk
Professors Converse and Rusk have replied to my present paper in two different ways: the former by a short, sharp rejoinder and the latter by a longer and more diffuse article. For space reasons alone, my commentary on their remarks must be concise; and while there is much which I should like to discuss further, there comes a time when the case must be sent to the jury. It is best, I think, to confine most of my comments on Philip Converse's Note…
Theory and Voting Research: "Some Reflections on Converse's "Change in the American Electorate
Philip E. Converse has challenged the findings of a 1965 article, "The Changing Shape of the American Political Universe," and other work by Burnham. Converse asserts that most of the very high voter participation which occurred before 1900 can be explained by a combination of electoral corruption, the absence of personal-registration requirements and other "undramatic" factors, and thus that the anomalies which Burnham reported are largely spuri…
Insulation and Responsiveness in Congressional Elections
The 1974 congressional election is part of a crisis sequence in the current history of the American political system. The tremendous upheaval which has been going on in our electoral politics since 1964 has had a number of remarkable by-products. Chief among these has been the progressive weakening of the hold which party loyalties have had upon the voters in channeling their voting decisions. This growing dissolution of party-in-the-electorate e…
Bicentennial themes and dreams
Revitalization and Decay: Looking Toward the Third Century of American Electoral Politics
Jeffrey L. Pressman
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Parties and Party Systems: A Framework for Analysis, Volume I, by Giovanni Sartori
Thoughts on the “Governability Crisis” in the West
The Politics of Crisis
Section and Party: A Political Geography of American Presidential Elections, from Andrew Jackson to Ronald Reagan
Journal Article Section and Party: A Political Geography of American Presidential Elections, from Andrew Jackson to Ronald Reagan. By J. Clark Archer and Peter J. Taylor. (Chichester, Eng.: Research Studies, 1981. xiv + 271 pp. Maps, charts, tables, appendixes, notes, bibliography, and index. $41.25.) Get access Albert C. E. Parker Albert C. E. Parker Alexandria, Virginia Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Jo…
Las Elecciones en Estados Unidos (Marzo-Noviembre De 1984)
The eclipse of the democratic party
The eclipse of the democratic party-revisited
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