Partisan Polarization in Congress and the Historic Shift in the Geographical Bases of U.S. Political Parties

• 발행기관: 한국외국어대학교 영미연구소
• 저자명: Dennis Florig
• 간행물 정보: 『영미연구』제19집, 265~297쪽, 전체 33쪽
• 주제분류: 사회과학 > 지역학
• 파일형태: PDF
• 발행일자: 2008.12.30

영문 초록

From the 1960s into the 21st century the American party system underwent two major transformations that were tightly interlinked—the ideological polarization of the parties and the regional shift of the party system. This paper uses a macrohistorical approach supported by an innovative method of analyzing long-term Electoral College and congressional election data to empirically demonstrate the two-way causal relationship between the ideological polarization of the parties and the unusually slow but eventually complete regional realignment of the U.S. party system. The ideological polarization so prominent since the 1990s actually began in the 1960s, first with intensifying ideological conflict in presidential races, which then set off a shift in the regional bases of the political parties, and which eventually culminated with more cohesive party voting and fierce ideological battles in Congress.

목차

Ⅰ. Theory and Method

Ⅱ. The Polarization of the American Party System, 1960-early 1980s

Ⅲ. The Regional Shift

Ⅳ. The Effect of the Regional Shift on Presidential Elections

Ⅴ. The Rise and Fall of Split-level Dealignment

Ⅵ. The Second Wave of Polarization in the Era of Dealignment

Ⅶ. The Regional Shift and the 2006 Congressional Election

Ⅷ. Conclusion

Works Cited

Abstract

키워드

U.S. political parties U.S. Congress Partisan polarization Realignment Political geography