TY  - BOOK
AU  - Caughey,Devin
TI  - The Unsolid South: Mass Politics and National Representation in a One-Party Enclave 
T2  - Princeton Studies in American Politics: Historical, International, and Comparative Perspectives
SN  - 9780691184005
U1  - 324.2730975 23
PY  - 2018///]
CY  - Princeton, NJ : 
PB  - Princeton University Press, 
KW  - Democracy
KW  - Southern States
KW  - History
KW  - Political parties
KW  - POLITICAL SCIENCE / Political Process / Political Parties
KW  - bisacsh
KW  - American South
KW  - American history
KW  - American political development
KW  - Democratic Party
KW  - Democratic primaries
KW  - Great Depression
KW  - Jim Crow South
KW  - Jim Crow era
KW  - New Deal liberalism
KW  - New Deal
KW  - Southern Democrats
KW  - Southern MCs
KW  - Southern conservatism
KW  - Southern politics
KW  - Southern public
KW  - Southern representatives
KW  - Southern senators
KW  - U.S. Congress
KW  - accountability
KW  - authoritarian regimes
KW  - congressional politics
KW  - congressional representation
KW  - congressional responsiveness
KW  - democracy
KW  - democratic politics
KW  - democratic regimes
KW  - democratic theory
KW  - electoral democracy
KW  - electoral participation
KW  - electoral politics
KW  - ideological diversity
KW  - ideological evolution
KW  - income taxation
KW  - item response theory
KW  - mass politics
KW  - minimum wages
KW  - multiparty system
KW  - national policymaking
KW  - old-age pensions
KW  - one-party South
KW  - one-party system
KW  - partisan competition
KW  - partisan electoral competition
KW  - political exclusion
KW  - political participation
KW  - political parties
KW  - public opinion
KW  - racial segregation
KW  - redistribution
KW  - regulation
KW  - representation
KW  - selectoral connection
KW  - social welfare
KW  - two-party North
KW  - union security agreements
KW  - voters
KW  - white polyarchy model
N1  - Frontmatter --; Contents --; Illustrations --; Preface --; 1. Introduction --; 2. The One-Party South: An Analytic Framework --; 3. Public Opinion in South and Nation --; 4. Southern Democrats in Congress --; 5. Democratic Primaries and the Selectoral Connection --; 6. Representation in the One-Party South --; 7. Conclusion --; References --; Index; restricted access
N2  - During the Jim Crow era, the Democratic Party dominated the American South, presiding over a racially segregated society while also playing an outsized role in national politics. In this compelling book, Devin Caughey provides an entirely new understanding of electoral competition and national representation in this exclusionary one-party enclave. Challenging the notion that the Democratic Party's political monopoly inhibited competition and served only the Southern elite, he demonstrates how Democratic primaries-even as they excluded African Americans-provided forums for ordinary whites to press their interests.Focusing on politics during and after the New Deal, Caughey shows that congressional primary elections effectively substituted for partisan competition, in part because the spillover from national party conflict helped compensate for the informational deficits of elections without party labels. Caughey draws on a broad range of historical and quantitative evidence, including archival materials, primary election returns, congressional voting records, and hundreds of early public opinion polls that illuminate ideological patterns in the Southern public. Defying the received wisdom, this evidence reveals that members of Congress from the one-party South were no less responsive to their electorates than members from states with true partisan competition.Reinterpreting a critical period in American history, The Unsolid South reshapes our understanding of the role of parties in democratic theory and sheds critical new light on electoral politics in authoritarian regimes
UR  - https://doi.org/10.1515/9780691184005?locatt=mode:legacy
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