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Writing Southern Politics : Contemporary Interpretations and Future Directions
In Writing Southern Politics, leading scholars review the key research and writing on southern politics since World War II. This essential volume covers topical areas such as civil rights, public opinion, political behavior, party development, population movement, governors, legislatures, and women...
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| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Lexington :
The University Press of Kentucky,
2015.
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| Colección: | Book collections on Project MUSE.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
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- Cover; Half-title; Title; Copyright; Contents; Foreword; Acknowledgment; Introduction. The Literature of Southern Politics; References; 1. Southern Political Party Development since World War; Political Party System Development; Party Competition; Party System Cleavages; Party Organizational Strength; Party Competition; Themes of the Literature of the 1960s and 1970s; Themes of the Literature from the 1980s to the Present; Assessing Party Competition; Party System Cleavages; Party in the Electorate; Party in Government; Party Organizational Activists; Summary of Party System Cleavages.
- Party Organizational StrengthConclusion; References; 2. Who Wants to Party? Activists and Changing Southern Politics; Early Southern Research; Surveying the Activists; Party Activists; Ideologies and Issue Stances; Incentives and Motivations; Pragmatism and Purism; Groups and Factions among Parly Activists; Organizational Activism; Future Direction for Research on Activism; References; 3. Unfinished Business: Writing the Civil Rights Movement; Beginning the Movement; Moving the Movement; Movement Dynamics; Outcomes of the Movement; Whither the Writings?; References.
- 4. Race and Southern Politics: The Special Case of Congressional DistrictingRace, Voting, and Congressional Districting; Voting Rights Districts; The Perverse Partisan Effects Thesis; Assessing the Partisan Effects of the New Districts; The 1992 Elections; The 1994 Elections; The Post-1994 Round of Redistricting; Conclusion; Notes; References; 5. Writing about Women in Southern Politics; The Common Body of Literatureon Women in U.S. Politics; Women Officeholders and Electing Women to Public Office; Women in Southern State Party Politics and Policy Preferences among Southern Party Elites.
- Studies of Individual StatesWomen and the Judiciary; Black Women in Southern Politics; Women's Involvement in the Civil Rights Movement; Biographies and Autobiographies; Conclusion: A Research Agenda; References; 6. Reflections on Scholarship in Religion and Southern Politics; Models of Religious Influence; The Master Narrative: The Political Mobilization of White Southern Evangelicals; Subnarrative I: Religion and the Political Empowerment of African Americans; Subnarrative II: Religious Politics among Southern Nonevangelicals; Catholics; Jews; Mainline Protestants; Seculars.
- Outside the Judeo-Christian TraditionConclusion; References; 7 Population Shifts Change a Region s Politics: The Old SouthMorphs into the New; From V.O. Key Jr. to the Present: Demographics Matter; The Movers: Who, Why, When, and Where?; Who Moves?; Why?; When and Where?; Four Major Croups of In-Migrants; Foreign-born Moving to the South; African Americans Moving to the South; Retirees Moving to the South; U.S. Natives Moving to the South; Linking Demographic Shifts, Political Participation, and Partisan Leanings; Shifts in Population Composition Affect Politics and Coalition Building.