Class and Culture
American Political Cleavages in the Twentieth Century
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 3263673 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Nicol C Rae (Florida International University, Miami, corresponding author) |
| Year | 1992 |
| Volume | 45 |
| Issue | 3 |
| Pages | 629-650 |
| Publication date | 1992-09-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | The Western Political Quarterly (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0043-4078 • E-ISSN: 2325-8675 |
| Publisher | SAGE Publications Inc (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.1177/106591299204500305 |
| OpenAlex | W2036179520 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 40 |
| References cited | 22 |
the New Deal political system had finally come to an end and what kind of system was replacing it. For some the New Deal system remained fundamentally intact except for aberrant presidential elections and short-term deviations (Sundquist 1983: 412-49). Others saw an emerging conservative coalition dominated by the GOP or a no-party politics based on single issues or personalities (Burnham 1970, 1982; Ladd and Hadley 1978; Phillips 1970). As the American political system enters the 1990s none of these alternatives is appropriate in describing the political scene. In presidential politics the New Deal era ended in 1968, and since that time the Republican party has consistently prevailed by winning over key elements of the Democrats' New Deal Coalition, particularly white Southerners and urban Catholics. Yet the Emerging Republican Majority remains stillborn in Congress and in the states. And while a case can be made for the dealignment hypothesis, the political parties are unlikely to vanish and in many respects are much more coherent entities in terms of ideology and national organization (if not voter mobilization) than they were a quarter-century ago. Rather than remaining caught in the thicket of the realignment/dealignment debate, this paradoxical situation may be better explained as a result of the resurgence in presidential politics of ethnoreligious cultural conflicts that were temporarily suppressed by the class-based party politics of the New Deal era. Culture in this context refers to cleavages that are based on questions of region, race, ethnicity, religion and morality, rather than questions of economic power or distribution of the national wealth. Divisions on foreign policy and national security issues that reflect differing conceptions of the U.S. role in the world are also rooted in cultural differences
Class (philosophy) · Context (archaeology) · Epistemology · Ideology · New Deal · Political culture · Political economy · Political science · Politics · Politics of the United States · Presidential system · Realigning election · Socialism · Sociology · Gender Studies · History · Law · Philosophy · Race, History, and American Society
The Rise of Partisanship and the Expansion of Partisan Conflict within the American Electorate
Foreign Affairs and Party Ideology in America
Culture versus Economics
Foundations of Feminism
Partisan Models and the Search for Party Effects in the US Senate
Interest Group Theory
The Party Faithful
How Parties Nominate Presidents
The Comparative Advantage of State Interest Organization Research
Theories of Parties
The Road Less Taken
Party Coalitions in the US Congress
Social and Economic Justice Movements and Organizations
Who Sings in the Heavenly Chorus?
Party Nominating Procedures and Recruitment—State and Local Level
Activists, Influence, and Representation in American Elections
Methodological Issues in the Study of Political Parties
Political Parties and Consultants
State Parties Research
The Mobilization and Influence of Business Interests
What a Difference Twenty-Five Years Makes
Interest Groups and Agendas
Interest Groups in American Elections
The State of Research on Political Parties and Interest Groups
The Evolution of National Party Organizations
Lobbying and Influence
Urban Interest Groups
The Evolution and Alteration of American Party Coalitions
The Pure Partisan Institution
Linking Political Parties and Interest Groups
The President, Party Politics, and Constitutional Development
Winning Isn't Everything
Methodological Perspectives on Interest Groups
American Political Parties
Culture Wars and Enduring American Dilemmas
The Oxford handbook of American political parties and interest groups
Class, Race Issues, and Declining White Support for the Democratic Party in the South
Critical elections and the mainsprings of American politics.
Sectionalism and American political development, 1880-1980
The shaping of Southern politics
Chain Reaction
Change and continuity in the 1988 elections
The end of liberalism
The new Presidential elite
The politics of rich and poor
Albion's seed
Quiet revolution
Building a New American State
Canarsie
The personal president
The Emerging Republican Majority
Farewell to the Party of Lincoln
Midwestern Progressive Politics; A Historical Study of Its Origins and Development, 1870-1950
Politics by Other Means
Consequences of party reform
Midwestern Progressive Politics
The Changing Shape of the American Political Universe
Revival and Reaction
| Unique citing works | 37 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 1,48 |
| Citation span | 1999 - 2010 (12) |
| Citation velocity | historical |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 36 |