The Elections, the Economy and Public Opinion
1984
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 6097787 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Seymour Martin Lipset (Stanford University, corresponding author) |
| Year | 1985 |
| Volume | 18 |
| Issue | 01 |
| Pages | 28-38 |
| Publication date | 1985-01-01 |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | PS Political Science & Politics (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1049-0965 • E-ISSN: 1537-5935 |
| Publisher | Cambridge University Press (CUP) (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.1017/s1049096500021260 |
| OpenAlex | W2039874048 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 8 |
| References cited | 4 |
Many commentaries on the recent American elections conclude that the United States has taken a long-term move to the right. This shift seemingly began in the late sixties as a reaction to the turmoil occasioned by militant, sometimes violent protest tactics used by the civil rights and antiwar movements, and by the sharp challenge to traditional values encompassed in the changes in family and sex behavior, dress styles, the increased use of drugs, and the like. The Republicans have been victorious in four out of the last five presidential elections, those held from 1968 on. Only one of these, that in 1968, was close, but in that contest a right-wing and racist candidate, George Wallace, received 13 percent. The one election of the five which the Democrats won, that in 1976, was the first one after Richard Nixon's resignation following the Watergate scandal.Yet the conclusion that America has been in a conservative mood for some time is challenged by the results of the races for Congress and state offices and by the findings of the opinion polls. In 1984, in the same election in which Ronald Reagan received 59 percent of the vote, eight percent more than in 1980, his party lost two seats in the Senate and gained only 14 in the much larger House, leaving it behind the Democrats by 252 to 183. The Democrats still hold 34 of the 50 governorships, down by only one. Judged by which party holds most electoral offices, the Democrats remain the majority party
CONTEST · Economic history · Militant · Political economy · Political science · Politics · Presidential election · Presidential system · Public opinion · Sociology · Electoral Systems and Political Participation · History · Law
The Geography of US Union Elections 2
Slip, Sliding Away or Le Plus Ça Change
Realigning forces in the United States elections of 1984
General election forecasting in Britain
Economics and the American voter
Ronald Reagan in the Public Mind
The ‘hip pocket nerve’ and electoral volatility in Australia and Great Britain
Partisanship, Economic Assessments, and Presidential Accountability
| Citations per year | 0.2 |
|---|---|
| Citation span | 1986 - 2022 (37) |
| Highly cited | No |