American Jews and the Presidential Vote
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 3720115 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Lawrence H Fuchs (Brandeis University, corresponding author) |
| Year | 1955 |
| Volume | 49 |
| Issue | 2 |
| Pages | 385-401 |
| Publication date | 1955-06-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | American Political Science Review (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0003-0554 • E-ISSN: 1537-5943 |
| Publisher | Cambridge University Press (CUP) (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.2307/1951810 |
| OpenAlex | W2317393071 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 19 |
| References cited | 11 |
It has been generally agreed since the publication of Professor Holcombe's The New Party Politics that the urbanization of American society has tended to produce class differences in our politics. The sectional alignments of the 19th century gave way to class and urban-rural politics in considerable measure as Americans continued to move to the cities. By the 1932 and 1936 elections there was a marked tendency for wealth and high prestige to be associated with Republican choice.Paradoxically, the most urban of all our citizens, American Jews, have not divided their presidential vote along class lines. As a group they rapidly improved their jobs, extended their incomes, and became highly educated during the 1930's and 1940's. At the same time, they drastically switched their predominant major party choice from the Republican party to the Democrats. And within the group itself differences in income or occupational prestige appear to have been of practically no significance in the formulation of presidential vote preference since 1936.The purpose of this article is threefold: first, to trace briefly the shifts in Jewish vote preference in recent decades through the use of aggregate election statistics; second, to probe the significant motivations of Jewish voters in 1952, primarily by analyzing the results of a sample survey conducted after the 1952 election in the city of Boston; and third, to suggest some of the basic reasons for Jewish resistance to class influences at the polls
Demographic economics · Economics · Occupational prestige · Political economy · Political science · Politics · Preference · Presidential election · Presidential system · Prestige · Socioeconomic status · Sociology · Voting · Demography · Jewish and Middle Eastern Studies · Jewish Identity and Society · Law · Race, History, and American Society
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Political Environments, Cohesive Social Groups, and the Communication of Public Opinion
The Liberalism of American Jews – Has It Been Explained
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Urban contexts, spatially dispersed networks, and the diffusion of political information
Understanding American judaism
Historical differences in the political experiences of American blacks and white ethnics
American Attitudes on World Organization
Religion and the Class Structure
The People's Choice
Religious Affiliation and Politico-Economic Attitude
Surveys, Polls and Samples
The Middle Class in American Politics
Surveys, Polls, and Samples
Income Classes and the Roosevelt Vote in 1932
The Composition of Political Attitudes
| Unique citing works | 19 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 0,28 |
| Citation span | 1958 - 2023 (66) |
| Citation velocity | historical |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 18 |