Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Part I. Issues in the study of realignment
  • Toward a theory of realignment : an introduction / Richard J. Trilling and Bruce A. Campbell
  • The structure and meaning of critical realignment : the case of Pennsylvania, 1928-1932 / Lawrence G. McMichael and Richard J. Trilling
  • Methodological issues on the study of realignment / David H. Nexon
  • Part II. Mass behavioral change
  • Secular realignment : the concept and its utility / Louis M. Seagull
  • Realignment, party decomposition, and issue voting / Bruce A. Campbell
  • Realignment and short-term crisis : a case study of public opinion during the Watergate Era / Robert G. Lehnen
  • Recent evidence on the stability of party identification : the new Michigan Election Study Panel / Philip E. Converse and Gregory B. Markus
  • Part III. Elite behavioral change
  • Political realignments and recruitment to the U.S. Congress, 1870-1970 / Lester G. Seligman and Michael R. King
  • Elections, Congress, and public policy changes : 1886-1960 / David W. Brady
  • The impact of realigning elections on public bureaucracies / Kenneth J. Meier and Kenneth W. Kramer
  • The Supreme Court's role in critical elections / David Adamany
  • Part IV. The impact of realignment on policy
  • The federal income tax and the realignment of the 1890s / Charles V. Stewart
  • Partisan realignment and tax policy : 1789-1976 / Susan B. Hansen.