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Congressional Realignment, 1925-1978 / Barbara Sinclair.

By: Material type: TextTextPublisher: Austin : University of Texas Press, [2021]Copyright date: ©1982Description: 1 online resource (212 p.)Content type:
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  • 9781477304891
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  • 328.73077509
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  • online - DeGruyter
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Frontmatter -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- 1. Agenda, Policy, and Alignment Change: A Framework for Analysis -- 2. Agenda and Policy Change during a Realigning Era, 1925-1938 -- 3. Expansion of the Political Agenda: Civil Liberties and International Involvement, 1937-1952 -- 4. Aftershocks of Realignment and the Return to Normal Politics: Social Welfare, Government Management of the Economy, and Agricultural Policy, 1939-1952 -- 5. The Eisenhower Interlude, 1953-1960 -- 6. Policy Change without Realignment: New Frontier and Great Society, 1961-1968 -- 7. Divided Government in a Time of Turmoil, 1969-1976 -- 8. Democratic Control and Liberal Malaise, 1977-1978 -- 9. Agenda, Policy, and Alignment Change: Determinants and Interrelationships -- Notes -- References -- Index
Summary: Ronald Reagan's election in 1980 brought with it a major shift in the composition of the U.S. Congress for the first time in several decades. The subsequent introduction of an enormous amount of new legislation sparked debate among many political observers that a new coalition was being built in American politics and that a significant change in the issues on the agenda before Congress heralded a Republican realignment. Barbara Sinclair's study is a major contribution to our understanding of realignment politics in the House of Representatives. It also provides important insight into the changes in American political life in the late twentieth century. Congressional Realignment poses three basic, related questions: What are the sources of agenda change? What determines congressional voting alignments and alignment change? Under what conditions are the barriers to major policy change overcome? Sinclair's answers are impressive both in their scholarship and in the depth and intelligence of her insights.
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Frontmatter -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- 1. Agenda, Policy, and Alignment Change: A Framework for Analysis -- 2. Agenda and Policy Change during a Realigning Era, 1925-1938 -- 3. Expansion of the Political Agenda: Civil Liberties and International Involvement, 1937-1952 -- 4. Aftershocks of Realignment and the Return to Normal Politics: Social Welfare, Government Management of the Economy, and Agricultural Policy, 1939-1952 -- 5. The Eisenhower Interlude, 1953-1960 -- 6. Policy Change without Realignment: New Frontier and Great Society, 1961-1968 -- 7. Divided Government in a Time of Turmoil, 1969-1976 -- 8. Democratic Control and Liberal Malaise, 1977-1978 -- 9. Agenda, Policy, and Alignment Change: Determinants and Interrelationships -- Notes -- References -- Index

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Ronald Reagan's election in 1980 brought with it a major shift in the composition of the U.S. Congress for the first time in several decades. The subsequent introduction of an enormous amount of new legislation sparked debate among many political observers that a new coalition was being built in American politics and that a significant change in the issues on the agenda before Congress heralded a Republican realignment. Barbara Sinclair's study is a major contribution to our understanding of realignment politics in the House of Representatives. It also provides important insight into the changes in American political life in the late twentieth century. Congressional Realignment poses three basic, related questions: What are the sources of agenda change? What determines congressional voting alignments and alignment change? Under what conditions are the barriers to major policy change overcome? Sinclair's answers are impressive both in their scholarship and in the depth and intelligence of her insights.

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