Prospects for Party Realignment
An Anglo-American Comparison
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 6248232 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Ivor Crewe (corresponding author) |
| Year | 1980 |
| Volume | 12 |
| Issue | 4 |
| Pages | 379 |
| Publication date | 1980-07-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Comparative Politics (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0010-4159 • E-ISSN: 2151-6227 |
| Publisher | JSTOR (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.2307/421832 |
| OpenAlex | W2314567683 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 22 |
| References cited | 4 |
In the wake of the wars, riots, scandals, and assassinations that convulsed America's politics during the 1960s and early 1970s, a spate of books and articles has speculated upon the future of the American party system.1 The focus of attention was the possibility of a new party system created by a similar to the three instances of 1852-56, 1896, and 1932-36. Plausible cases were made out for almost every development conceivable: for an emerging Republican majority, for a new party of the middle majority, for a new Democratic majority based on the New Liberalism, even for an end of parties' altogether.2 Scenarios for party realignments, one outside observer dryly noted, became the journalists' and academics' most popular sport.3 In order to move beyond mere guesswork, serious discussion of the party system's prospects has tried to base itself on a theory of partisan realignment-general propositions about their cause, timing, direction, and scalederived from an analysis of past realignments, especially the classical three. Details vary, but generally realignments are seen as going through three stages: a prior dealigning phase; a critical realigning election, or perhaps series of elections; followed by a stable period of consolidation. Current prospects for a new are therefore assessed in terms of the resemblance of presentday conditions with past examples of the first-stage, dealigning eras. Two crucial concepts in this discussion are therefore and realignment itself. By dealignment is meant a weakening of partisan attachments to one or both major parties. Evidence of dealignment from one party
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Dealignment without realignment
The sociological and psychological influences on public support for the European Union in Britain, 1983–2005
Negative partisanship in Western Europe
Uruguai
Social Class and Partisanship in European Electorates
Party Government in Public Opinion
Predicting the Intention Not to Vote in Late Teenage
Looking Backward
Schumpeter's Britain ‐ Forty years on
Cognitive Mobilization and Partisan Dealignment in Advanced Industrial Democracies
Dealignment of Degree
Party Decline in the West A Skeptic's View
The Challenge of the "Participatory Revolution" in Pluralist Democracies
The policy opinions of British nonvoters; a research note
The Changing Nature of Partisan Divisions in the West
Weakening partisanship and the higher educated in Britain
The Electoral Antecedents of Policy Innovations
The Making of a More Partisan Electorate in West Germany
Party Realignment in the United States and Britain
The Electoral Cycle and Patterns of American Politics
Partisan Dealignment in the American Electorate
| Unique citing works | 22 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 0,47 |
| Citation span | 1979 - 2026 (48) |
| Citation velocity | current |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 21 |