Party Alignments Research Articles

Suffrage Classes and Party Alignments: A Study in Voter Behavior

Suffrage Classes and Party Alignments: A Study in Voter Behavior

Southern Politics in State and Nation, by V. O. Key, Jr., Alexander Heard

More than thirty years after its original publication, V. O. Key's classic remains the most influential book on its subject. Its author, one of the nation's most astute observers, drew on more than five hundred interviews with Southerners to illuminate the political process in the South and in the nation.Key's book explains party alignments within states, internal factional competition, and the influence of the South upon Washington. It also probes the nature of the electorate, voting restrictions, and political operating procedures. This reprint of the original edition includes a new introduction by Alexander Heard and a profile of the author by William C. Havard. A monumental accomplishment in the field of political investigation. Hodding Carter, New York Times raw truth of southern political behavior. C. Vann Woodward, Yale Review [This book] should be on the 'must' list of any student of American politics. Ralph J. Bunche V.O. Key (1908-1963) taught political science at the University of California, Los Angeles, and at Johns Hopkins, Yale, and Harvard universities. He was president of the American Political Science Association and author of numerous books, including American State Politics: An Introduction (1956); Public Opinion and American Democracy (1961); and The Responsible Electorate (1966).

The Influence of Metropolitan Party Pluralities in Presidential Elections Since 1920: A Study of Twelve Key Cities

In recent years, party theorists have been much concerned over the validity of the sectional interpretation of American politics. One contention is that sectionalism, if still valid, is being modified, or supplemented, by an urbanrural party alignment which bodes major change for the future. This intuition is of comparatively recent vintage, certainly not a product of the study of political trends before the New Deal, although one writer has attempted to construe a specific earlier election in terms of the tension between urban and rural areas. In the 1920's, however, most analysts decried the urban-rural thesis. Professor Holcombe, writing in 1924, asserted that “whatever may be the cause of the existing partisan alignment in national politics, it is not primarily a conflict between rural and urban interests.” And Stuart Rice concluded in 1928, after specialized studies of voting trends, that “antithetical” facts belie any interpretation of urban-rural election divisions which suggested a clearly defined cleavage.The literature on this subject which has appeared since 1932, however, has persistently suggested a new urban-rural modification of the pattern of presidential politics. In 1933, Professor Holcombe commented on the “radically different … urban politics of the future.”

Politics and Value Systems: The Supreme Court, 1945-1946

In a recent Gallup poll the question was asked: Some people say that the Supreme Court decides many questions largely on the basis of politics. Do you agree or disagree with this? Among those who had an opinion on this matter, 54 per cent agreed and 46 per cent disagreed. It is impossible, of course, to know what Mr. Gallup meant by the term politics, nor how it was interpreted by the persons polled. If it referred to divisions in terms of party alignments, then it is easy to demonstrate that there is no on the present Court. During the 1945-46 term the Court was composed of six Democrats and two Republicans,' and on only two of the 77 decisions in which there was division of opinion among the justices during the term did the two Republicans line up against the six Democrats. But if politics means the political philosophies of the justices and their personal judgments as to the role of law and the Constitution in relation to economic and social development, then it is clear that politics does, and should, influence Supreme Court decisions. President Theodore Roosevelt put the case very well when he wrote to Senator Lodge in 1902, in connection with the appointment of Judge Holmes to the Supreme Court:

Class Structure, Class Consciousness, and Party Alignment

Class Structure, Class Consciousness, and Party Alignment

An Analysis of the 1932 Presidential Vote in Chicago

In many ways, the city of Chicago is typical of the United States as a whole in the twentieth century. It is a cross-section of the mixture of races, religions, sects, linguistic groups, and economic classes that go to make up modern America. In the past two decades, the political behavior of the citizens of Chicago in national elections has been similar to that of the entire American electorate. Except for the election of 1916, when Hughes carried the city by a narrow margin, the presidential candidate who carried Chicago also carried the electoral college.At irregular intervals, there have occurred in American party history certain crucial presidential elections which appear to have set the party alignments for several decades. The election of 1896 was such an election, since it determined the supremacy of the Republican party for a period of a quarter of a century, interrupted only by the Wilson Administration, which came to power because of a split in the Republican ranks. A new era in American politics was definitely started by the election of 1932 which ended the Republican dominance. An intensive study of the behavior of the voters in Chicago during this political upheaval will throw some light upon the motivation of the voters in the entire United States.

Palmerston and Parliamentary Representation

Previous articleNext article No AccessPalmerston and Parliamentary RepresentationHerbert C. BellHerbert C. Bell Search for more articles by this author PDFPDF PLUS Add to favoritesDownload CitationTrack CitationsPermissionsReprints Share onFacebookTwitterLinkedInRedditEmail SectionsMoreDetailsFiguresReferencesCited by The Journal of Modern History Volume 4, Number 2Jun., 1932 Article DOIhttps://doi.org/10.1086/235867 Citations: 3Citations are reported from Crossref Copyright 1932 The University of Chicago PressPDF download Crossref reports the following articles citing this article:Antony Taylor Palmerston and Radicalism, 1847–1865, Journal of British Studies 33, no.22 (Jan 2014): 157–179.https://doi.org/10.1086/386049Angus Hawkins ‘A Rope of Sand’, (Jan 1987): 199–225.https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-349-08925-3_11Angus Hawkins British Parliamentary Party Alignment and the Indian Issue, 1857–1858, Journal of British Studies 23, no.22 (Jan 2014): 79–105.https://doi.org/10.1086/385819

The London county council election of last March

AbstractThe politics of a lecal election in England and how it is taking on the color of national party alignments.