This book examines the dynamics of the American party system and
explores how contemporary American politics was formed.
Specifically, it asks how the Democrats could become sufficiently
competitive in the American North as to be able to construct a
national political majority. It rejects the conventional account,
based on 'realignment theory', that between the end of
Reconstruction and the Civil Rights Revolution, the base level of
support for the Democratic party varied greatly from one era to
another. Instead, by distinguishing between the 'building blocks'
available to the Democrats in coalition formation and the
aggregation of those 'blocks' into an actual coalition, the author
shows that there was much less variation over time in the available
'blocks' than is usually argued. Neither the economic depression of
1893 nor the New Deal had the impact on the party system that most
political scientists claim.
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