Table of Contents

Introduction; The Collapse of the Democratic Presidential Majority; The Decline of New Deal Economic Cleavage: Social Class and Issue Salience; Decreasingly Latent Cleavages: Race and the Roosevelt Coalition from 1948 to 1972; The Emergence of the Second Mini-Realignment: Ideological Extremity and Democratic Defection; The Fragile Extension of the Second Mini-Realignment: Retrospective Voting and the Politics of Prosperity; Mondales Revenge: Ideology and Retrospective Evaluations in 1992; Conclusion: Realignment, Dealignment, and Electoral Change from Roosevelt to Clinton.

About the Author

David G. Lawrence is professor of political science at Fordham University and studies voting and elections, public opinion, and political participation.