Political issues and party alignments: Assessing the issue evolution perspective

Annual Review of Political Science

Volumn 9, Issue , 2006, Pages 67-81

  Carmines, Edward G ^a   Wagner, Michael W ^b  

^a INDIANA UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF DELAWARE   (United States)

Author keywords

Critical elections; Party identification; Polarization; Political parties; Realignment

Indexed keywords

EID: 33745772424     PISSN: 10942939     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1146/annurev.polisci.9.091905.180706     Document Type: Review

References (62)

1. Abramowitz AI. 1994. Issue evolution reconsidered: racial attitudes and partisanship in the U.S. electorate. Am. J. Polit. Sci. 38:1-24
2. Adams GD. 1997. Abortion: evidence of an issue evolution. Am. J. Polit. Sci. 41:718-37
3. Burnham WD. 1967. Party systems and the political process. In American Party Systems: Stages of Political Development, ed. WN Chambers, WD Burnham, pp. 277-307. London: Oxford Univ. Press
4. Burnham WD. 1970. Critical Elections and the Mainsprings of American Politics. New York: Norton
5. Campbell A, Converse P, Miller W, Stokes D. 1960. The American Voter. New York: Wiley
6. Campbell DE. 2002. The young and the realigning: a test of the socialization theory of realignment. Public Opin. Q. 66:209-34
7. Carmines EG. 1991. The logic of party alignments. J. Theor. Polit. 3:65-80
8. Carmines EG. 1994. Political issues, party alignments, spatial models, and the post-New Deal party system. In New Perspectives in American Politics, ed. LC Dodd, CC Jillson, pp. 77-97. Washington, DC: Congr. Q. Inc.
9. Carmines EG. 2001. Issue evolution. In International Encyclopedia of Social and Behavioral Sciences, ed. NJ Smelser, PB Baltes, pp. 7937-40. Oxford, UK: Elsevier Sci.
10. Carmines EG, Ensley MJ, Wagner MW. 2005. Party polarization and mass partisan identification in the United States: 1972-2000. Presented at Annu. Meet. Midwest Polit. Sci. Assoc., Chicago, IL
11. Carmines EG, Layman GC. 1997. Issue evolution in the post war era: old certainties and fresh tensions. In The Present Discontent, ed. BE Shafer, pp. 89-134. Chatham, NJ: Chatham House
12. Carmines EG, Stanley HW. 1990. Ideological realignment in the contemporary south: Where have all the conservatives gone? In The Disappearing South: Studies in Regional Change and Continuity, ed. RP Steed, LW Moreland, TA Baker, pp. 21-33. Tuscaloosa, AL: Univ. Alabama Press
13. Carmines EG, Stimson JA. 1980. The two faces of issue voting. Am. Polit. Sci. Rev. 74:78-91
14. Carmines EG, Stimson JA 1989. Issue Evolution: Race and the Transformation of American Politics. Princeton, NJ: Princeton Univ. Press
15. Carmines EG, Woods J. 2002. The role of party activists in the evolution of the abortion issue. Polit. Behav. 24:361-77
16. Cowden JA. 2001. Southernization of the nation and nationalization of the south: racial conservatism, social welfare, and white partisans in the United States, 1956-92. Br. J. Polit. Sci. 31:277-301
17. Downs A. 1957. An Economic Theory of Democracy. New York: Harper & Row
18. Erickson RS, MacKuen MB, Stimson JA. 2002. The Macro Polity. Cambridge, UK: Cambridge Univ. Press
19. Erickson RS, Wright GC, Mclver JP. 1993. Statehouse Democracy: Public Opinion and Policy in the American States. New York: Cambridge Univ. Press
20. Geer JG. 1991. Critical realignments and the public opinion poll. J. Polit. 53:434-53
21. Kahneman D, Tversky A. 1982. The psychology of preferences. Science 246:135-42
22. Kaufmann KM. 2002. Culture wars, secular realignment, and the gender gap in party identification. Polit. Behav. 24:283-307
23. Kellstedt PM. 2003. The Mass Media and the Dynamics of American Racial Attitudes. Cambridge, UK: Cambridge Univ. Press
24. Key VO Jr. 1955. A theory of critical elections. J. Polit. 17:3-18
25. Key VO Jr. 1959. Secular realignment and the party system. J. Polit. 21:198-210
26. Kinder DR. 1998. Opinion and action in the realm of politics. In The Handbook of Social Psychology, ed. DT Gilbert, ST Fiske, G Lindzey, pp. 778-867. New York: Random House. 4th ed.
27. Ladd ECI. 1991. Like waiting for Godot: the uselessness of "realignment" for understanding change in American politics. See Shafer 1991a, pp. 24-36
28. Layman G. 2001. The Great Divide: Religious and Cultural Conflict in American Party Politics. New York: Columbia Univ. Press
29. Layman G, Carsey TM. 2002a. Party polarization and conflict extension in the American electorate. Am. J. Polit. Sci. 46:786-802
30. Layman G, Carsey TM. 2002b. Party polarization and party structuring of policy attitudes: a comparison of three NES panel studies. Polit. Behav. 24:199-236
31. Layman G, Carsey TM, Menasce Horowitz J, 2006. Party polarization in American politics: characteristics, causes, and consequences. Annu. Rev. Polit. Sci. 9: 83-110
32. Leege DC, Wald KD, Krueger BS, Mueller PD. 2002. The Politics of Cultural Differences: Social Change and Voter Mobilization Strategies in the Post-New Deal Period. Princeton, NJ: Princeton Univ. Press
33. Lindaman K, Haider-Markel DP. 2002. Issue evolution, political parties, and the culture wars. Polit. Res. Q. 55:91-110
34. Lupia A, McCubbins MD. 1998. The Democratic Dilemma: Can Citizens Learn What They Need to Know? New York: Cambridge Univ. Press
35. MacDonald SE, Rabinowitz G. 1987. The dynamics of structural realignment. Am. Polit. Sci. Rev. 81:775-96
36. Mayhew DR. 2000. Electoral realignments. Annu. Rev. Polit. Sci. 3:421-74
37. Mayhew DR. 2002. Electoral Realignments: A Critique of an American Genre. New Haven, CT: Yale Univ. Press
38. Miller G, Schofield N. 2003. Activists and partisan realignment in the United States. Am. Polit. Sci. Rev. 97:245-60
39. Mooney CZ, ed. 2001. The Public Clash of Private Values: The Politics of Morality Policy. New York: Chatham House
40. Mooney CZ, Lee MH. 2001. The temporal diffusion of morality policy: the case of death penalty legislation in the U.S. states. See Mooney 2001, pp. 766-80
41. Nardulli PF. 1995. The concept of a critical realignment, electoral behavior, and political change. Am. Polit. Sci. Rev. 89:10-22
42. Plotke D. 1996. Building a Democratic Political Order. New York: Cambridge Univ. Press
43. Pomper G. 1967. Classification of presidential elections. J. Polit. 29:535-66
44. Riker W. 1982. Liberalism Against Populism. San Francisco: WH Freeman
45. Rosenof T. 2003. Realignment: The Theory that Changed the Way We Think about American Politics. New York: Rowman & Littlefield
46. Sanbonmatsu K. 2002. Democrats, Republicans, and the Politics of Women's Place. Ann Arbor: Univ. Mich. Press
47. Schattschneider EE. 1956. United states: the functional approach to party government. In Modern Political Parties: Approaches to Comparative Politics, ed. S Neumann, pp. 194-215. Chicago: Univ. Chicago Press
48. Schattschneider EE. 1960. The Semi-Sovereign People: A Realist's View of Democracy in America. New York: Holt, Rinehart, & Winston
49. Schreckhise WD, Shields TG. 2003. Ideological realignment in the contemporary U.S. electorate revisited. Soc. Sci. Q. 84:596-612
50. Sharer BE, ed. 199la. The End of Realignment? Interpreting American Electoral Eras. Madison: Univ. Wise. Press
51. Shafer BE. 1991b. The notion of an electoral order: the structure of electoral politics at the ascension of George Bush. See Shafer 1991a, pp. 37-84
52. Shafer BE. 2001. The transformation of southern politics revisited: the House of Representatives as a window. Er. J. Polit. Sci. 31:601-25
53. Shafer BE, Claggett WJM. 1995. The Two Majorities: The Issue Context of Modern American Politics. Baltimore, MD: Johns Hopkins Univ. Press
54. Silbey JH. 1991. Beyond realignment and realignment theory: American political eras, 1789-1989. See Shafer 1991a, pp. 3-23
55. Sniderman P. 2000. Taking sides: a fixed choice theory of political reasoning. In Elements of Reason: Cognition, Choice, and the Bounds of Rationality, ed. A Lupia, MD McCubbins, SL Popkin, pp. 67-84. Cambridge, UK: Cambridge Univ. Press
56. Stanley H. 1988. Southern partisan change: dealignment, realignment, or both? J. Polit. 50:64-88
57. Stimson JA. 2004. Tides of Consent: How Public Opinion Shapes American Politics. New York: Cambridge Univ. Press
58. Stonecash JM, Brewer MD, Mariani MD. 2003. Diverging Parties: Social Change, Realignment and Party Polarization. Boulder, CO: Westview
59. Stonecash JM. 2006. Political Parties Matter: Realignment and the Return of Partisan Voting. Boulder, CO: Lynne Rienner
60. Sundquist JL. 1983. Dynamics of the Party System: Alignment and Realignment of Political Parties in the United States. Washington, DC: Brookings Inst.
61. Weatherford MS. 2002. After the critical election: presidential leadership, competition and the consolidation of the New Deal realignment. Br. J. Polit. Sci. 32:221-57
62. Wolbrecht C. 2000. The Politics of Women's Rights: Parties, Positions, and Change. Princeton, NJ: Princeton Univ. Press