Politics in the USA, Sixth Edition

30 The nature of American politics tion of 1936, a majority of non-manual workers voted for the Republicans. Lipset has pointed ...

The nature of American politics 31 the candidate of one party at a presidential election to the candidate of the other party at ...

32 The nature of American politics Ethnic politics and multiculturalism From the early 1930s, minority groups such as Italian-Am ...

The nature of American politics 33 the same way the complex interrelationship between Catholic doctrine and the need to assert t ...

34 The nature of American politics and in many cases ‘foreign-sounding’ names were anglicised. Furthermore, the educational syst ...

The nature of American politics 35 velopment of an immigrants’ rights movement. Concern about the extent of illegal immigration ...

36 The nature of American politics lics split almost fifty–fifty between the parties, but four years later roughly 80 per cent o ...

The nature of American politics 37 Christians, particularly in the South, where 73 per cent of white evangelicals voted for him. ...

38 The nature of American politics Table 2.3 Voter turnout: presidential elections 1848–72 75.1% 1876–96 78.5% 1900–16 64.8% 192 ...

The nature of American politics 39 Eisenhower, but only 28 million voted for Republican candidates for the House of Representati ...

40 The nature of American politics was re-elected and, although the Democrats have carried Pennsylvania for the presidency in ev ...

The nature of American politics 41 builder and star of the ‘Terminator’ film series, who was elected Governor of California in 2 ...

42 The nature of American politics cultural land, to the vineyards and forests of the north, up to the border with Oregon 800 mi ...

The nature of American politics 43 islature even considering it and without the governor’s signature. The state constitution req ...

44 The nature of American politics We have tried to isolate four main strands of political behaviour in the electorate, and we s ...

3 The two-party system The patterns of sectional, class, pluralistic and individualistic political behav- iour in the American e ...

46 The two-party system a multi-party system of the most thoroughgoing and unstable variety, and yet in fact there is in operati ...

The two-party system 47 century, giving to the federal government in Washington an interest, and an influence, in a large number ...

48 The two-party system The presidential and congressional parties The structure of American federalism provides one of the most ...

The two-party system 49 presidency, experience as the governor of a state being considered a better apprenticeship. President Ly ...